I'm sure you've had this problem discussed a gazillion times but I need some guidance on this please. The other day my computer got sick and needed a format. Before doing that, I backed up all my important files to an external hard drive. Now that I've got my 'C' drive back up and running, I'd like to get the data back from my external. However, no matter how I try and no matter how many articles I read in the - ahem - 'Help' section, I can't get them back. All the files are in the ' fbfFile' format and I can't figure out how to retrieve them. Yes I went through the 'Recover My Files' and couldn't retrieve anything because of the lack of a 'Recovery Point'. So tried backing up my files and folders again today (didn't take long because there is very litlle to backup - but my gawd - what a drag down, slow program to run - whew!). Still no recovery point. What am I to do to get back some very important stuff?