Don't panic just yet. It is likely that you can recover the e-mail and
bookmarks. Installing XP as well as Netscape should not destroy the data
portion. However, you will need to make changes that will allow Netscape to
access the old information. This will be true of all the other programs that
are now not functioning.

I don't use Netscape, but do have Firefox installed. They both operate
similarly. Look for the bookmarks under "Documents and
Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\...\Profiles" Hopefully the
install of XP did not destroy the old user folders.

Just a common sense note at this time. Do you have a backup of your drive?
If not, you should consider making backups. I have had disk failures
unexpectedly and found that my backups were not always very current!

Good luck,

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
Well, my stepson being the "Patient 19 y/o" that he is went ahead and jus= t
installed the new copy of XP Pro over the old one and now, as suspected= ,
all the programs that were installed are not working.  He didn't reform= at
the drive, so it appears that most of the actual data is still there. =  Is
there any way to recover my wife's saved email and bookmarks from the=  old
copy of Netscape that she was using before this?  I think we may be = out of
luck because he has also already downloaded and installed a newer = version
of Netscape!  Thanks for the answer to my question, I just wish I=  had
gotten a chance to Use it!  I guess I should have told them Specific= ally
NOT to do anything until I figured out what exactly we needed to do!

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