Thank you Just-Lisa-Now

I'm about as computer literate as a mud puddle!!!  From what my son tells me, even though the HD is wiped clean, often if the area on the HD where the files were stored hasn't been written over, they can oftne be restored.  He is going to remote into my computer (he in Indiana; I in Florida) and see if he can run a utility program to recover at least some of the files.  Crossing my fingers!!!!

Richard