Good News. My new Lacie 250 GB Hard Drive arrived on Friday and I was able to completely recover all the files from the total meltdown that I had last week.

I used a program called EasyRecovery Professional which has to be one of the most useful pieces of software anywhere. Not only did EasyRecovery find all the missing files, most of which I could not find the other programs I tried, but it found over 520 gigs of info because somehow it is able to recover old, deleted files. So, the only problem I had with the program was to set up the filters in the right way so that when I dumped my files from my old drive to the new one, it wasn't overwhlelmed with deleted files that I didn't want.

Now all my movies, all my music and most importanly, all my pictures and personal files are restored and I won't have to deal with this again until hard drive number craps out on me.