Well it's clear I celebrated too soon - I've lost at least 3 months of data, the entire (digital) life record of my daughter - gutted... While my HDD does appear to working as described in the last post , however, the data on the drive is old at least...

Wow - I've just had a few hours of terror as I cam home to hear my Maxtor Onetouch III 1TB external HDD clicking away and no longer in explorer... SCARY! A few quick searches on the web and looks like I'm toast - so ironic as we have had a few HDD failures...