Dead Dead Dead!!!

Just to add to my seasonal joy...
My 500 gbt external hard drive has died.... with hundreds of photos on etc.
Damn....B*****r...(and many more I can't even begin to type on here!!!!).
Sometimes it just doesn't pay to get out of bed!



UPDATE: 1400 hrs!

Gave it a shaking... and shouted at it in a manic way...(Like Basil Faulty with his car) ...and it's started working again!!!!
So now I am busy backing EVERYTHING up !!!
Whew!!!!!