I am delighted to say that I was able to get complete restoration of my lost images off my corrupt external drive through a data recovery firm yesterday.This was 1.2 TB of data so ya....quite a few pictures.I will be getting a twin external drive to this one and from now on will have 2 backups of all my files.I keep very little on my internal drive on the computer so as not to run out of space so if any of you out there have any good ideas on how you save your images I and others would love to hear them.