ok..reran disk check....said it removed bad clusters and gave me the following info...681152 kb in 178 recovered files/windows has made corrections to the file system/156,017,456 total disk space/1200 kb in hidden files/176 kb in 11 folders/97,513,120 kb in 25,643 files(im pretty sure i had 25,643 songs on there before it wiped.does this mean theyre still there somewhere??)/176 kb in bad sectors/58,502,768 kb are available/16384 bytes in each allocation unit/9,751,091 total allocation units on disk/3,656,423 allocation units available on disc....ok..im totally ignorant about this stuff.can anyone translate?is this good?bad?
for the record,it still isnt recognized in itunes..and not sure if this matters,but i did NOT have it in disk mode when i ran the check....
whats my next step??is it worth trying to save?
thanks for the patience with me..