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Oh Em! You must be heartbroken after all that work! You have my full sympathy. I'm cross enough with my OH for saving all my Gaynor Bear Relay stuff in some weird format on CD that I can't get into, so I can only imagine how bad you must feel. CB >|< X

Thanks Rupert, no i dont hold out much hope either, as you say, Hubby should have backed everything up first... its his domain the pc, we all get shouted at if we try to do anything on here....

Tassie, when i told him, he just shouted at me saying so.. he has lost stuff too!!....... AND????

Em so sorry to hear of your losses. My grandson is a wiz kid with computers and only this morning I complained of certain things and he saoid he could fix same but unless i had copies on disc I would lose everything that was stored. If Judy in the states can offer an answer I shall be pleased top learn of it. Rupert.

many thanks for that, Jess... hopefully by the time 'HE' gets home i will have calmed down enough to speak to him! I phoned him before just to check what he had done... and when he said.. its all gone, i just burst into tears and put the phone down on him.:((

Em That is terrible. My OH says that system restore wont work, he also learnt the hard way when he lost things on the puta, now he backs up everything on disc. One question ..... is hubby still breathing ???

Thats it jeanette.. everything of outlook express gone! :((

Em, keep a cool head for a mo- judy is your man. My 'he' is looking over my shoulder and initially said ''Oh No'' But apparently the files are still there, it is the Ref to them that has been erased by formatting in the file allocation table. there are utilty progs that will look the hard disc and list files that are on it. The only downside is, they could be lost because re-insalling windows can overwrite the space those files were in. Dont panic- wait for JUDY Alan recomends www(.)nonags(.)com - site for this type of utility prog Jess x

Thanks for your messages.... Danger mouse, i have tried system restore, it only takes me back to when i re installed windows xp this morning. Some of the photos, i can hopefully get back again off the people that sent them, but i know alot of them were deleted of the digital camera after putting them on the pc... there were loads of my wedding photos there too!, family photos, ones of the children... all lost! I will send Judy in the States a message when i compose myself... thanks xx

Oh no! That's terrible Em. Don't know if a system restore would help. I'm not very good with technology I'm afraid. When my last computer kicked the bucket, I lost everything from outlook express which contained similar things to yours. Hope you can get it sorted xx

Oh Em hope you find a way to get it back. Can't help sorry Germaine x

Go to the tips board and put a shout out for Judy in the States she is a whizz at pcs but is probably in bed at the moment so be patient put it in big letters so she sees it something like JUDY in the states HELP please. good luck xxhugxx

dont cry our em. just throttle him! will you be able to get them replaced or were they the only copies?

oh Em - maybe one of the geniuses here will think of a way to retrieve them for you hugs flower xx

oh god Em, nightmare. Had a mate do that to my pc once, lost my whole degree! nothing to say but sorry. :-0

After sorting out he pc, after hubby re formatted it last night, i have now found evrything has gone... saved documents, contacts, emails photos... including ones sent to me of my birth family... including one of my mother.. the only one i have... everything that is important to me... hubby had not saved a blooming thing to disk... i am distraught. ;(( UPDATE>>>>> all is not lost!!!! the hard drive was safe, and ALL of it Was safely tucked away in the darkest corner of the pc...... ITS ALL BACK>>PHOTOS EVERYTHING!!!! :))))))))))