Hi Mark the days of Peter Nortons famous unerase program have long gone. Forget about the Norton Utilities and most similar programs under XP or W2K today. They are mostly useless and bloated software since the takeover by Symantec and even dangerous in the hands of normal users. There is a lot better freeware available, look at www.sysinternals.com for example, and XP has sufficient tools for most of us. Chkdsk is good enough but won't help with your problem as Herb has already pointed out. What's really missing is a good uneraser, where Ontrack Emergency Recovery is on of the best but most expensive.
Oulooks database should be compressed often, because it starts corrupting its files after a certain size is reached. Maybe it's time for Thunderbird? greetings Markus but it >>also makes me wonder if there aren't better alternatives (in the DOS days >>scandisk and the Norton Utilities seemed much better than chkdsk, > >>
