Quote - Tip for ya, Acadia, because I sooooooooooo feel your pain ... get an external hard drive and do periodic backups of your runtime folders to it.  That way, if this should happen in the future, you'll have intact copies of your runtimes saved.  You don't even need to keep the external hard drive hooked up.  Just plug it in when you want to do a backup or a restore.

Since I've moved all of my external runtimes to one of my SATA drives, my external hard drive is strictly for backups now and this is what I do.  I use Acronis' True Image 10 to run a weekly backup of my OS partition and my external runtimes.

I have one now and my new computer also has a DVD burner.

My old desktop was 6 or 7 years old and had a really slow CD burner...one of the first ones HP made actually. And the external HD that I had was only 19 gigs and was full.   So I was doing what I could with what I had available to me.

Oh well.  I guess it's time to weed out the stuff I never used. I guess that is one positive thing.

But I do have my runtimes on my partitioned drive on my computer, as well as my new external drive.  Once I get it all sorted out...again... I plan on burning them to DVD too....unzipped!

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi