Nope, its as if the files never existed....

That may just really, really suck then... Don't suppose he has any backups around, does he?

Hehe.....errrr.....no [img]tongue.gif[/img]
oh well, Im sure we will find a way somehow...

Knoppix is the best suggestion I've heard. I haven't used it for a while but IIRC it does have drivers for reading NTFS paritions. Not sure about writing, but you only to read anyway.