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Jim, You can obviously format it, and then restore it…but I don't think that's what you want to do. If AmigaDOS finds the disk to be not a dos disk…then the problem starts with the first sector on the partition. it's that sector that tells AmigaDOS what kind of disk is there. Since this is a partition…I presume it has a mountlist and if so, then make the first 4 bytes of block 0 of the parition = the dos type shown in your mountlist. That'll more than likely be the ASCII characters 'DOS' plus the value 1. You can use sectorama to fix it. Once you get it recognized as a DOS partition (either reboot after the write of sector 0 or issue a diskchange command for it), then your tools ought to be able to recover all your files. Don