Originally Posted by
Icarver
I would really suggest that you take the hard drive from the crashed computer and your backup hard drive to a computer shop. chances are really good they could retrieve your data without a lot of expense. I I do this often for friends however I probably live too far from you to make it worthwhile but a computer shop should not charge more than $40-$80 to do this. Don't get me wrong though there always is a chance that somehow you lost all the data or never backed it up when you thought you did. but the chance is really pretty slim. In the future I would really suggest using a backup service such as Carbonite which costs about $60 a year and it's well worth it.
Another solution is to use dropbox thousands of MPC's and patterns will fit in the free dropbox space that's allowed. All you have to do is always back up or copy your patterns and Mpc's to the dropbox folder or just save them there to begin with. That is what I do. I save all my designs in my dropbox folder and then if anything ever happens I can access them again from any computer. When I want to open something in designer I just go to my dropbox folder and double-click on it from there.