>Does VFP keep a backup of a FORM while in design mode, such as .bak for prg files. For some reason my computer keeps rebooting, once in a while since the last few days. As a result the FORM under developement is completely corrupted. Does VFP leave any hope.

Since scx is a dbf, something MAY be gotten out of hacking the scx
by
set deleted off
USE xxx.scx

Depends on how much changes were tried afterwards <g>.
There are some tools to support this...

HTH

thomas