Mr Earl: Sorry to hear of your crash: Like others have stated all may not be lost, The files are still there u need to find the problem and corect it. Find a computer shop that will trouble shoot you unit and repair it. I have a custom built computer with 4 hard drives, every file is written to two hard drives so if one goes down the other is still usable. Cost was $500.00 . I don't have to worry any more about backing up files. If the the rest of the computer fails all I have to do is install the old hard drives in another machine. Its kind of like changing motors in cars. Even hard drives can be rebuilt without data loss. Terry29-26