you have my sympathy Acadia i recently had the same problem except mine was self imposed. I upgraded my computers Op System but had the brilliant idea of zeroing my HD first. I have a 72 GB external HD i backup to, but it broke recently (that piece of sh;#) but i also backup to CD and within the last year DVD's ( ya about 200 of them now) and i have a disk catalog program for hunting down stuff on CD problem is the cataloger wont work in my new System upgrade, which i knew in advance, so i got a new disk catalog program but it would not work except in the new software, so i could not use it until i upgraded >.< so everything got upgraded and here i am about 4 months later and i still have not got all my Poser content reloaded LOL