thanks for all the advice guy's.
found myself well out of my depth with the problems caused by this crash!
so took it to a pc doc,who ran a recovery on all my files etc and managed to rescue about 75% of my pictures,ran security checks,updates etc.cost £75.
got home tried to connect to the internet with no succsess,to cut a long story short and several calls to my b/b provider,resetting passwords,re-installing all my programmes that had been wiped etc,im now back on line 6 days later out of pocket and minus loads of photos.
lesson learnt the hard way,i would'nt wish this on anyone.
memory stick is being delivered tonight and whats left of my photo's will be transfered on it asap..
thanks again ph.