Hi! There is a computer company in Sweden that has made an recovery program for damaged harddrives, like those who got attaced by CIH. Currently it is recover 99% of MS Word documents, sais their homepage http://www.wkit.se/ (Sorry it is in swedish, but you can probably get answers in engish at the link "Kontakta Oss"). And they are currently working on another recovery-program that will save other files than MS Word. I havenīt seen any prices, but swedish newspapers sais that this program will be free for students. Hope this information will be usefull for sombody... //Magnus. Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html