So, I had to format my HD and as a result lost about a months worth of photos including a trip to Edinbrugh and about 4 gigs.
What I learned from this?
Back up everytime you up-load somthing to your machine!
Sorry to hear about your woes. Went through something similar a few weeks back but luckily had backed up a few days before. Only lost a some emails and some artwork easily re-created.
PC World have a Freecom 400 gigabyte USB 2 External Hard Disk for ?130 at the moment. I think it comes with backup software but couldn’t swear on it.