all I've just recently screwed a hard drive up, accidentally deleted a partition and tried to fix it with partition magic in a moment of panic this only made matters worse as it then started to format not good! So i then decieded to actually look into what i'd done and see if there was a cure (should have done this in the first place) i managed to recover most of the stuff i needed using a proggy called getdataback only thing is every last jpg and illustrator file (.ai) is corrupt, i think it may be the headers in the jpg's as for the .ai's have no idea, guessing it could be a similiar problem. But i'm pretty sure i can get these images (mostly iriplaceable photos) back as binarybiz's viryuallab offers an image preview tool, this shows the pictures! and their ok But if any one could shed any light on the situation before i go and blow yet more £££££'s on file recovery, would be very gratefully, especially relating to the illustrator files as these are pretty important projects i'm working on at th mo Cheers in advance to anyone that's willing to help