Major screw up.
 

I was in the saved game selector and thought that the delete save was to delete individual saved missions. So in an attempt to clean up things, I used the delete saved and deleted all of the missions. Is there anyway to recover this?

With a little bit of luck you can undelete the files. Try "File Recovery", it´s freeware:
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Do not install it on the Windows partition, it could possibly overwrite the empty parts of the partition where the save games were stored. The save game files are in mydocuments\sh3.

Thanks

Yes, I hear you
 

Yes, I have done it myself. Actually deleted a mission where I nailed some really big fishes, I was upset at that time when I understood what I did....

But hey, I picked up myself from the groun 2 hours later (still sobbing) and went out again for the most boring mission ever. :)