Really sorry to hear your bad news Gregg. I had my computer take a dump on me about two and a half years ago in a storm. A power surge hit and trashed my computer. I lost everything. I foolishly didn't have any surge protection at all on my computer, and no backup. I had to go out and buy a new tower unit and bought some mains protection as well, and I thought that all would be OK. Then just as my warranty had run out on my new tower, disaster struck again and my power supply just blew for no apparent reason, and took out my mother board. I was very lucky in that a friend managed to salvage my hard drive contents and replaced my mother board and put a beefier power supply in. I now keep everything important backed up on an external USB hard drive. Computers are great when there working. but when something goes wrong it can have a real sting in the tail!! I hope you manage to get it sorted Gregg and you manage to recover the files you need. Best regards, Adam.