Don't worry Gary, if you read my post in the other thread, I'm right there with you except it looks like I beat you in getting my data recovered. Good luck with yours.
This is the website of the program my nephew used on my drive. It's a very professional looking site and they say it recovers partitions too .
OnTrackDataRecovery
Knowing what I felt like when suddenly my system wouldn't open my drive, you have my sincere sympathy. I'm doing the exact same thing you're about to and that is set up an automatic backup system just like what our IT guy at work uses. He uses Acronis because it does incremental backups which is the term for what you described when you said it knows to only back up the new stuff, not everything every time.
I totally agree, if we're going to do this, it must be automatic because if it's not, we're going to forget and get nailed again.

Bob


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