Sorry to hear that crash, no good anyone telling you to back up after the fact. I know how devastating it can be and also learnt my lesson the hard way.

I had a boot partition virus 5 years ago before all the good antivirus and antispyware was installed and it wiped my entire drive.

Databases, spreadsheets, documents - 5 years hard work lost to infinity.

:(

With computers I should know better, but I guess we lose everything eventually.