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