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Back-ups, PC 1 had the back-ups for PC 2!  PC 1's C drive was failing (clicking noises and random crashes) so tried to remove two of its hard drives and put into PC 2!  This process caused a system failure on PC 2, which resulted in me doing everything possible to restore the operating system.  Phoning and phoning the manufacturers 24 hour helpline!  So i treid to restore PCs 1 and 2 using the restore disks that came with the PCs!  As PC 1, was a back up of PC 2, It did not seem so important that a new version of windows was installed and old files lost!  PC 2, I tried to boot from the restore CD, when I did this no warning was given that it would lead to a loss of all data on drive C!  Drive C being one of the three 300gb sata drives in it!

So the system went of and deleted the content and formatted the disk of PC 2, without warning me that this was what it was doing, unlike PC 1, which warned me that it was doing it!

Now when we talk of back-up, We have shot about 120 (Mud and Gunge) updates for mostwam (shot from the end of April to now!), all of which had hundreds of pictures, this is what i have lost!  I have been assured that the data, can probably be recovered, but obviously this is a major catastrophy even so!  I have isolated drive C of PC 2 and am not using it so nothing further is overwritten!  My 300gb C drives were both about 95% full!  With pictures, I use each of the PC's other two drives for video!  Video is not a problem as I still have the tapes and as far as I'm aware all other hard drives were not effected!  Just the C drives of both machines!  I have a 4gb high speed SD card that comes back full 5 days a week this summer!  back-up is a bit of a mission in itself!

Last night i was in catatonic shock, however today after talking to many data recovery companies, I am feeling much better!  On the bright side for wetlook fans, my C drives were so full of pictures for my sites, I had to move the new pictures for MostWet, leonmoomin.net and streetsplash to another drive!  this mainly just effects the 2006 pictures for mostwam's updates!  Damn, they were so good aswell!  

Like i said I am very confident i will be able to restore them, I will be backing up even better from now on though, once bitten etc!

I do know i broke off some communications last night, so sorry about that!

leonmoomin