i guess that the easiest way ot recover your data is to invent a time-machine, go back in the past and make backups.... i can't solve your problem, but if it's of any help, i've seen something like that many years ago on a PC with a wierd, low-cost, M/B. IMHO, and it's really humble, it's a motherboard problem, which means that it can happen again tomorrow with the brand new, hi-tech, super-secure, disks you buy today. So my suggestion is to let the whole thing have a check and have your dealer change the M/B if it's still under warranty.
To restore the data, the only option i see is to contact a company whose job is exactly to restore data from broken, burned, fainted or damaged-in-any-way hds. But you data have to be really important, because the typical cost of recovery is in the order of 25$ per Mbyte (!!!) sorry, that i can't give a "good" solution. R# -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
