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If you're thinking the drives don't have any hardware issues.

Use the following FREEWARE program to rebuild the MFT (from the backup that the O/S maintains), rebuild a lost or overwritten partion-table or even un-do a disk format (I've actually used this tiny little utility to UNDO a hard-drive format for some of my dumber extended-family members....hehe )

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

If the other software/methods you've been using to solve your issue haven't made things worse by too much, this tiny utility should just be able to make your drives bootable again.  I've been using this util for years now, and it's the very first thing I look to when I know the drive failure state has nothing to do with hardware failure.

the Monk

I'm not getting kickbacks, but in the vein of backups, I'll add that I'm quite happy using Jungle Disk (http://www.jungledisk.com/) to keep some core files off my home pc. I have a WHS box and some other backups as well.

There are other services which will backup everything on the PC for a not unreasonable yearly price, considering the gnashing of teeth if you lose it all.

 There are two good recovery program>

Recover My files and ONTRACK EASYRECOVERY (The latter, in principle, help to restore files from the HDD and when ruined MFT

 There is a trial version, which at least will say: that they find it possible to restore...  process takes more than an hour for every 100GG

 (* But in both cases it is desirable to have a second HDD, for storing the recovered data

It's really very very important to have another HDD.. just for backup. i hate it when these things happen..

Jesus and Satan have a discussion as to who is the better programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they come to an agreement to hold a contest, with God as the judge.

They sit themselves at their computers and begin. They type furiously, lines of code streaming up the screen, for several hours straight. Seconds before the end of the competition, a bolt of lightning strikes, taking out the electricity. Moments later, the power is restored, and God announces that the contest is over.

He asks Satan to show what he has come up with. Satan is visibly upset, and cries, "I have nothing. I lost it all when the power went out."

"Very well, then," says God, "let us see if Jesus fared any better."

Jesus enters a command, and the screen comes to life in vivid display, the voices of an angelic choir pour forth from the speakers. Satan is astonished.

He stutters, "B-b-but how? I lost everything, yet Jesus' program is intact. How did he do it?"

God smiled all-knowingly, "Jesus saves."

I wish some almighty power would strike thee down