Once again thanks for all the help guys. I bought a external USB drive and gave it to the forensic people to put the recovered data on. I got everything I needed and am back up and running and I didn't lose anything.

It's ironic that several of you mentioned data corruption as that is exactley what happend. My drive was mechanically fine the data just got corrupted.

I do however need to be able to back this up even if I have to do it manually every night before I go home. I have the external USB drive now to use for this and I also have ghost so I could do DVD backups also just to be extra safe.

Badshot if you have any suggestion I am all ears. I only need to back up one PC the other PC out in the shop is not a big deal as it has no data just software. If it crashes I simply reload everything and I'm done. Depending on how much trouble it is I may back it up also if it would help me get it up and running faster in the event of a crash.

Thanks for all the help guys.