Briliant! I held down both mouse buttons and chose boot with no startup sequence but all I got a dos promt page. I then booted the system with a 3.1 disk and I can access the files that way. Theres all sorts of stuff on it so im going to have a good look now. Thanks for the advice, it was the simplist thing to do yet I didnt even think of it! Priceless after the many hours spent messing about lol
Ill update again shortly