I lost about 30% of my data at this point. I'm saving this thread to try more meathods when I get my spirits up. You have NO idea how much time was put into editing, corrrecting, cropping, etc all of those thousands of photos. I just havn't wanted to deal with computers in the meantime. I have two empegs - one with a new "No Hard Disk Found" message, one with the horrible BUZZZ noise returning, I have a Creative Zen that is dead and now the PC ate itself. So... I've just been avoiding technology as much as possible and been trying to do stuff like paint my house and spend time with my son instead of look at photos of him. All of my Battlefield 2 buddies probably think I'm in jail or something.

Eventually I'll take a few days and try some more. At one point I thought I lost everytihng, so saving 70% or so is nice.

Warning to all: BACK UP TO DVD - NOT TO HD!!!

Thank you EVERYONE for your kind words and suggestions. I am going to try every one of them in a few more weeks.