Hi Eleanor Thankyou for your reply, Hopefully I can get at the information once a new power supply is fitted, if not I do at least have a full back up of the whole drive. I learned the hard way having lost all my mail, so I bought a USB 80 gb external hard drive, then the power supply went up the spout!!. (thankfully after I had done a full back up:-) It would take a while to restore to this PC (took hours to back up!!) time I do not have at present. Technology is great (when it works eh? <g>) Thanks again Best wishes Nivard Ovington Cornwall (UK) > Dear Nivard, > > Sorry to hear about the demise of your pc, a similar thing happened to me !!! > I had somebody link up my broken PC with theirs, and copy my hard drive. It > only took a few minutes and I got all of my research back!! You need to get > in touch with a friend who knows a little about computers, or pay a data > recovery company to do it for you. > > Hope this helps. > > Eleanor