Thank you all for your thoughts and words regarding my little inconvenient episode.
Remus,I've tried opening the SKB file but to no avail. I'm new to these forums, who exactly is craigd and how do I get in touch with him?
Jakob, the disk was brand new. The only thing overwritten on it was the OS.
Julian, I will most certainly make additional backups all over the place from now on--- (data DVD's, External hard drives, other pc's, etc...).
Thanks again to all who cared...

ferrcorni

Hello there...
My windows OS recently had some flaws, took it to the shop and the hard disk had to be reformatted (ouch). My hard disk had two partitions; 50gb for the OS and program files and 250 for storage. The nut cake at the shop over saw this and simply reformatted the entire disk. I recovered some important SU files after he reinstalled windows again but they won't open. They have the correct file extension, date, and file size---but just won't open. I get a "doesn't seem to be a sketchup model" message when I try. Has this ever happened to anyone and is there a way to correct the file? Please help!!!!!!!

Hello there...
My windows OS recently had some flaws, took it to the shop and the hard disk had to be reformatted (ouch). My hard disk had two partitions; 50gb for the OS and program files and 250 for storage. The nut cake at the shop over saw this and simply reformatted the entire disk. I recovered some important SU files after he reinstalled windows again but they won't open. They have the correct file extension, date, and file size---but just won't open. I get a "doesn't seem to be a sketchup model" message when I try. Has this ever happened to anyone and is there a way to correct the file? Please help!!!!!!!