Yeah, but at least it has been reported to not be a problem before , and you are already past the difficult stage, so it *should* be easy (except for the nerves ) to get it working again Woohoo! It seems to have worked - can see all my precious files, just copying them off now. Glad it didn't take much longer, don't think my poor heart could have taken much more! Think the problem with it 'hanging' on that command is because I didn't power off/on the drive before running it. Doing as Escalera did (power off when it hangs, wait for a minute, back on, ctrl + z, and then "m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22") seems to have done the tick. Thanks to everyone!