I bought a bigger drive to save the rescued files. Then, i ran a western digital utility on the disks. It did something to the munched backup drive that fixed it. That meant that i got back everything since my last backup, which was a few months ago. Then, i made a recovery cd w the data rescue proggy, and used it to recover the munched c drive. I need to sort through the recovered files to try and get the files since the last backup. Thanks, everyone who helped out w recommendations.
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