I have 100 gigs here and I still use tried and true cd's I drag them into a folder and when they get to 650 meg about I burn a cd then start over again. It's goes fast if you keep stuff up. Like don't wait till you have 3 gigs unbacked up. You could always try to get that dir recovered. Cost a couple hundred bucks probably. Seems to be a trend now power supply goes and takes the hard drives out. I just fixed one power supply hard drives and mother board. Toast. No back up and they had a high speed burner too and too bad but about 3 years of data on the drive no backup. Too bad it's gone now. They could have made a copy in aboout 2 mins if they would have used there heads.