The most important thing to do right now is to stop using the drive that has the 'deleted' files on it. Any changes you make to that drive (even, for example, using a web browser which stores its cache on that drive) stand a fair chance of overwriting some of the data you want to recover. Once you have the machine switched off (or the drive isolated), take your pick of the Windows 2000 undelete utilities out there. I've seen File Scavenger used by a colleague at work to good effect. Whichever one you use, you have to be careful how you go about undeleting. If the drive was your operating system drive (most likely C: for Win2K) you'll need to put the drive into another machine as a non-boot drive to do the recovery. Booting from the drive with the deleted files is just asking for Windows to overwrite part of the files you want to recover. Just for emphasis: STOP USING THE DRIVE WITH THE DELETED FILES ON IT. Kev.