Brag,
You had the hard drive only 5 weeks?! daft question but any idea what may have gone wrong with it? mind sharing what make it is,ie Western Digital (very good brand,with data recovery software included normally)
The only thing I can come up with is that somehow the drive got formatted without you knowing,hardly possible but I once did it with an external hard drive,I formatted my entire system with a clean install of XP while having an external hard drive (containing all game data,saves,mods,patches etc) still connected effectively formatting THAT in the process! I was not pleased and it took me ages to reaqquire all the stuff I had downloaded over the years
Either that or somehow it has taken a bang or knock damaging the platter that writes the data.
Get well soon
