thanks for your answer!
What happend I put the amiga HD physicly in an installed linux box and then tried to mount it. which messed up the filesystem. Never touched it since.
Until a few months ago, for the sake of backup i decided to give it a go in a Pc and see if it still physicly worked ( which it did).
Thanks for your advise, here is what i did;
I fired up WinUAE and spend an evening on trying to remember how things worked :]
After a few hours, I had rdb-salv (unregistered) running.
And found in the "salvage" tab, when selected a uaehf.device that it found DH0! and at the bottom of the info window on DH0 it says, "Data found on volume"
promising!
Another hour later i found the program HDtoolbox (workbench installer disk). But it didnt see any HDs (or partitions?)
allthough on my workbench i have 2 icons "SDH0:<4crap characters>" and "SDH1:"
Then i played around with settings in winuae to mount the HDimage, but nothing changed (other then an unclickable icon on the desktop)
this first evening excercise brought me a lot closer to restoring this very old data :]
any suggestions to get hdtoolbox to recognise the hd?
thanks in advance again :]
Sem