Thanks greatly for the pointers Toni - will have to give them a try in the next few days.
Best get to bed (Australia) - though I just got a dead aes256-encrypted drive to spit out its data (while I had the passphrase, the partition table was trashed and the encryption was stopping me using regular recovery methods), so I am a bit high now! :-D Glenn. -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org