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Like Zen1969, I, too, am impressed by the support here! Thank you for helping us!!

XP SP2, I have a WD MyBook 500GB external drive USB, NTFS, two partitions G: (roughly 400 GB) and I: (roughly 100 mb). My problems seemed to occur after inadvertently installing a demo version of Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 to the I: drive and then subsequently trying to delete it. At that point I began having $Mft errors.

PartitionMagic 8.0 sees the drive and its G: and I: partitions and used and unused space but cannot access them, giving Error #11117. The Check Partition option in PM gives Error #993 - Partition contains open files. Using the Operating System Check Utility

Will the Recovery Console fix this?

RMF says it is "Reading G" and "Reading I", but then they come up as drives 0 and 1 ?? I'm afraid to do more damage when I believe all my data is there and just under a corrupted MBR or partition table? I'm not sure which search to invoke in RMF to assure success.

I am unsure as to how to take the drive and hook it directly to the computer as a slave drive (as I had read in some other posts). Would I be better taking this to a professional for them to do just that, or is that unnecessary?

Any thoughts would be appreciated. And I thank you in advance for your assistance.