Donna, My heartfelt condolences to you. It is a disaster to loose all of our hard work. I had a close call once, so I not only back-up, but I make paper print outs every so often of key information. You never know when a disk won't work or has a glitch, and you can bet it will be when you need to recover. Doing this saved me once. I could recover everything but my e-mails. But I had the print-outs and was saved from disaster. Paper is the hardiest of archival media currently in use. It lasts well over 100 years. Microfilm is expected to last 40 or so years, computer disks much less. I hope that with time you will be able to recover even more data. Take care. Joe Wright, Chicago