Thanks all.

I'm in the prosses of contacting E-Frontier, but it's the weekend and there closed... "bummer"

But all is not lost, I do have a friend who does data recovery, he said: "just bring the drive to me

and I get your stuff back" hope this high tech stuff works.

(It's a short 62 mile ride)... (right around the corner)

I'll keep you posted, thanks again.