Hi again Fixer,
A movement with this incident which may or may not throw some light on the matter. I received a email from Raxco Software advertising their Perfect Recovery software. I thought, "well, let's give it a whirl" and unexpectably it picked up a NovaBACKUP script file which was dated from the day I took the backup of (the then) D drive
I need to contact NovaBACKUP tech support to see if anything can be salvaged from the script file but, we shall see.
Thought I should just let you know.
Cheers
Graham