hi , Its my experience and any other novice out there could be benefitted by this. What happened was, I accidently quick formatted(using MS Dos 6.22) my C drive (having win. partiton)..which had two O.S installed 1)RH 6.2 2)Win 95. some imp. data was there on my win 95 partiton, i tried to unformat it but was not succesful. so i booted Linux and mounted the partition on which win 95 was installed (the one i accidently quick formatted) and to my surprise all the data was there and i was able to retrieve it. Question:-- I want to know how this was possible? i know that quick format just erases the FAT but how come linux was able to read the old data in the win 95 partition. Thanks in Advance Yogi Software Engineer Dcm Technologies _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list