Hello Tom Hello Tom I am getting mail delivery failures when I send email to tomking@freewwweb.com So, I decided to post this message to the list. I am very sorry that you had a hard disk failure. I hope you can find a company that can economically recover your hard drive. Ontrack has a service where they can sometimes recover the data using dial-up via a modem. Ontrack Data Recovery Emergency Help Center http://www.ontrack.com/hc/ec.asp Yahoo also has a list of companies in the data recovery business. http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Computers/Services/D ata_Recovery Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: tomking <tomking@freewwweb.com> To: <BREEDLOVE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 1999 8:41 AM Subject: [BREEDLOVE-L] Breedlove databases > Due to my hard drive crash, I'm afraid I have lost everything on all of > my research including the genealogy databases over over 250,000 names, > all of the photos I've scanned, the separate DBase files of census, > cemetery, baptism and marriage records, plus all of my correspondence, > etc. My son reformatted the spare hard drive I was using for a backup > so all of the data is gone. My only hope is that I can find an > inexpensive data recovery service that can extract the files from the > hard drive. The boot record is intact and it sees all of the files with > correct size and date stamp, but when I try to view the file the machine > gives a unable to read error message. Some files can be read and I'm in > the process of moving those to a good hard drive. It appears that about > every other sector or so is unreadable. The only good news is that I > kept the main BREEDLOVE data current in PAF, PAF 3, and in Master > Genealogist, so hopefully at least one of these can be recovered. Have > started fresh with a new 9.1 Gig Hard drive so it will take me some time > to reload all of the software programs and get all of the updates off > the internet. I do have 5 or 6 other hard drives laying around that may > have some older backups on it but again that is going to take some time > to set up and go through, so in the mean time, I would request no one > ask me anything too involved. I do have the paperwork research to fall > back on, but I would almost rather give it all up than have to re-enter > everything that took me ten years to input into the computer. > > Tom King >