My world has ended!!!

Well, ok not LITERALLY, but pretty close.  So last night I upgraded to Win 7 Ultimate.  I wont go into why or anything, just assume I had good reason too.  I decided to go through my computer before upgrading to clean out unnecessary files, duplicate files, etc.  That took me...well, a long time.  Many hours.  Finally I got 780gb of data down to 480 something, yeah it was that bad.  I had moved all this on top a seperate HDD, restarted the computer and installed Win 7 Ultimate to the main drive.  Now while I was in the Win 7 setup screen, it listed all 4 drives; 1 with old Windows, 1 with game files, 1 empty, & 1 with inflation porn.  Simple right?  So I selected the old Windows drive, formatted it (I like to be thorough when reistalling my OS) and told setup to install Windows 7 onto that same drive.  I want to point out that I was VERY careful and at no point did I format, delete, repartition, etc. ANY of the other HDD!

I came back an hour later and setup is asking me to name the computer, choose a log-in password, etc.  I go through all this and finially arrive at the Windows Desktop.  So I open My Computer, with the intent to open up the Game drive which contains all the drivers & apps I use and/or install initially on my machine.  Now, Im sure most of you, if not all, are familiar with the little blue/red bar that shows how much of a given drives space is currently filled.  Well, all three of my storage drives are showing white....meaning they are apparently empty.  I open every drive up and they all show the same thing, empty.  No unknown file types, no corrupted data, on games, no inflation porn.  Nada.

I have tried everything I know of to recover the lost data and at this point I have decided all is lost.  So, as far as inflation content goes, I have lost everything.  ALl the videos I ever purchased, all the stories I wrote, was writing, or save, all the images.  All gone.  Games can be downloaded and reinstalled, so can the misc. programs.  But the rest...poof.  And I can't even say it was a HDD failure, as they are all working fine.  For some unexplainable reason Windows setup erased all the HDD.  I have never in all my years building computers seen something like this happen under these conditions.

Now I am sure some of you are going to ask, well did you back anything up?  The answer is sort of.  I used to back up my HDD to DVD/Bluray on a regular basis (say every 6 months or so) and the last time I did this was a little over a year ago.  So anything I saved after that is gone gone.  Now, as for the discs prior to that...well they are MIA.  And this only came to light this morning.  I have the day off, so I went to pull them out and the place there are supposed to be they are not in.  I have now ransacked my apartment (which isn't very big so it doesn't take that long) 4 times and I cannot find ANY of my backups.  Oh, I DID find my originally copy of Svengali's BE CDROM! :D So I still have that jewell.

So today I am sad.  And pissed.  And I think it's safe to sat, a tad depressed.  Ba-humbug.  Phooey.  Poop.