John, you rock!

that's exclatly what my boss wanted, we do have gaps in that table.

thanks again, and thank you all of you that contribute your help.

Many thanks.

I tried both suggested queries, and my row id starts at 1 to 137,000.

Thank you!  I tried it but it returned no records.

What could be wrong?:

I do have intivirus software in this machine.

I'll disabled it and try again.

Thanks,

Thanks to all of you for replying, it is not a network drive nor CD drive and it has the  slash after the E:.

I try recreating the file, backing up...

Cool deal!

That worked perfect.

Thanks a lot... You rock!