Good news. Drive is back. Cost me £758. Thanks for the six donations. You have helped me cover 1/7th of the cost which is amazing. Any other donations would be much appreciated. I was unable to reconnect the media to the FCP timeline automatically, so I am doing it manually, which will take a looong time.

Also, several files have become corrupt. For some reason it has also lost random parts of the edit including clips taken from the THX laserdisc. Is anyone able to send me the DVD version please? Also the lost edit scenes have disappeared from the timeline but I have the original media so I will have to edit all that in again.

So, in short, it will take a while to get back on track, but rest assured it will happen. I have already spent a couple of hours on it this week.

Thanks for all your support.