... it may be more cost effective. Example: db1.companytable.name -> db1.companytable.co_ID(Accounting info) db2.companytable.... db2.companytable.co_ID(Service issue info) db3.companytable.name -> db3.companytable.co_ID(Order info) db4.companytable.name -> db4.companytable.co_ID(Additional demographic data) end result record db1tablelink db2.tablelink ...

..., it may be more cost effective. Example: db1.companytable.name -> db1.companytable.co_ID(Accounting info) db2.companytable.name -> db2.companytable.co_ID(Service issue info) db3.companytable.name -> db3.companytable.co_ID(Order info) db4.companytable.name -> db4.companytable.co_ID(Additional demographic data) end result record db1tablelink db2.tablelink db3....

dplanchet wrote: I reloaded XP and I have an external drive that XP can't read. The data is there but XP can't read it. I had an data recovery companyt look at it and they want mucho $$ to get my data. They said something about recreating some file and recovering the data. Did some online searching and some results say use Norton Utilities??? Any ideas? Too little info to ...

I reloaded XP and I have an external drive that XP can't read. The data is there but XP can't read it. I had an data recovery companyt look at it and they want mucho $$ to get my data. They said something about recreating some file and recovering the data. Did some online searching and some results say use Norton Utilities??? Any ideas?