just read this now. oooh man my 2 cents. how's going your machine now? ya should rly be pissed off with what happened. I also have a HDD full of stuff (95% of my 1024x768 desktop is full of icons, very often used)... if i lost all this data, i should be rly pissed off. do you have a pendrive? to prevent any probs, i have a backup of all the Freelancer: Expanded Universe stuff in a 2GB Kingston Pendrive. Well, it's a work from august '07...