[andrewas]

barb, kindly get into the habit of reading the thread b4 replying. if the C drive is formatted then there is no directory to browse.

if he has a spare hard-drive and a masochistic attitude it is possible (just) to recover those files, but if hes put anything (and i do mean anything) on the drive hes very likley killed them dead. or a low-level format would also kill it dead. if hes far to rich for his own good, there are companies out there who can recover files even after 15 overwrites, but it costs about $6000.

oh and does anybody know of an online translation service (like bablefish) which handles dutch. saves havin to bother them when they post in it.