That little warning before you OK'd the format should be your big clue. It's gone dude! Yeah, in theory detectives can recover from trace signals still on the drive. But in spite of CSI, the science isn't practical on a whole drive. From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eduardo Freitas Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 2:01 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] File recovery Hello guys!!! I have a big problem and hope someone here can help me with it. We have just formated and reinstalled a notebook for a user. The problem is that the user had some very important files on the C: on her computer. Can you recommend some programs which could potentially recover these files? If there are free programs which can do this well I'd prefer since I need this done ASAP (if still possible! : ) Thanks a lot! Best Regards, Eduardo