I said I could tolerate the loss (obviously I have backups) but it's the principal of what how and why.
Yes milo it's on a 64 bit machine. I just moved it from a USB 3.0 caddy to an available slot internally when it went south.
OK if I can recover it with less than an 1/2 hr work on my part not including any additional computer resources which can be running in the background then That's what I'm interested in.
If this is basically lot's of work, I'll just have to start selecting my backup files from around the place and burn them onto a freshly formatted disk + check dsk and await the next mysterious failure. If it's the disk I can easily replace that for a couple of hundred $ +. If it's the Caddy, I already ordered another one. If it's the computer than I need to fix it somehow.