Sorry to hear the bad news. I hope things work out for you. :-) "When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks] "It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9

Ended up getting partition magic to work from some DOS Boot Disks so everything is OK now. I was really stressed for a moment, but the moment has passed! ;)

Hi I think what you want to do is almost the same as what the RDS.DataFactory can do for you. If you need to extend the functionality - you can create your own based on the DataFactory. Search for RDS in the MSDN