I normally have a backup but since I moved to 8 I had not got round to setting up Win backup. Luckily all I've lost is what was on my desktop.
Although the HDD seems to be working again just fine (I have put it back in my system and have rebooted twice), that has scared and confused me now.
edit: If you are interested the SSD is:
http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-ver...i-2-5-ssd.html 60GB