Hi Brenda, Here is a link to Drive Rescue, a free recovery program; http://home.arcor.de/christian_grau/rescue/ "What Drive Rescue can do for you: Find any lost and deleted data on your drive (e.g. hard disk) even if the partition table is lost or the drive has been quick-formatted Lost Data resulting from a system crash can also be recovered What Drive Rescue can NOT do for you: Find any data on a physically damaged drive " ~~~~ However a word of warning, do not download or install anything on the same drive or partition as the missing e-mail was on, you may end up writting over the lost email. What this means is if your email program was on C drive. you would need to install the recovery program on D drive. Mike ~ It is a good day if I learned something new. Editor MikesWhatsNews see a sample on my web page http://www3.telus.net/mikebike <mikeswhatsnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> See my Anti-Virus pages ~ http://virusinfo.hackfix.org *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 19/07/2002 at 10:31 PM Brenda wrote: ill try that -------Original Message------- From: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Friday, July 19, 2002 10:26:22 PM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk= - Re:-=PCTechTalk=- Brenda Have you got Norton or something that can do a restore to erased files? Do an advanced deleted files search, set it to just list the files deleted that day. Then find the .eml and find it that way To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/