My Vista became unstable recently and after learning from my last disaster I saved all the info I wanted onto my data pen. I then downloaded Ubuntu but unfortunately forgot to extract my pen and it started to overwrite it. The pen now reads as a Linux partition (ext3) no data has been written to it so files should still be there. Does anyone know if I can get them back or do I need The Dr.?

Try downloading undelete on another pc, then put pen drive in, and run undelete and direct it to search pendrive, failing that pm thedr

If you drop the pen off at mine I should be able to get most if not all of it back for you.

Thanks for the info Willo and thanks for the offer TheDr. I'll look you up and call in.