Hard Drive Dramas

A frustration lately has been losing everything off the hard drive of my computer. One day, my screen just went black and when we re-started it, everything was gone. The experts haven't had any success retrieving it. While there was a lot of writing on there (letters, journals, planning, etc) the biggest blow has been losing many precious photos of our family. I had been preparing photo collage pages for printing to go in Emily's first photo album (her first year) and I lost all the work, plus the photos. Sob! We still have some photos on a backup drive, but not all of them. I guess this is a hard lesson to learn in backing stuff up properly!!