Things are looking a little better today. Downloaded an update of Gibson's SPINRITE program which is a program I've long used to detect and restore bad sectors on my drives. Ran it on the drive with all of my genealogy and it identified a lot of bad sectors and restored some of them back to good usage. I was able to move all of my KING database and 630 out of 700 letters, plus about 200 other files and Gedcoms, but still am not able to access any of the three Breedlove good databases. Will go back to SPINRITE later tonight and run it at a deeper level of correction. At least I saved my bookmarks, though they show up funny on this old version of Netscape I installed, and I can surf the web for new information, even if I don't have a database to put the data into. There is just too much information out there so I add a little to the Breedlove file every day, mostly from online obituaries of some dying within the past week. This is really going to put me further behind with the new data stacking up with no where to go. As if my stacks of research weren't high enough already. Bought another spare backup drive at CompUSA today, an 8.4 gig Maxtor for $100 after rebate, and I'll keep it in my machine instead of the server so my son can't get to it. Then I'll take his CD writer and make backups onto CD. With blank CD's under a buck, it's fairly inexpensive. Tom King