What a horrible chore. At least you dont need to be gardening and recover photos.
Do yo have an back up program like Carbonite ?
I have it after I deleted several months of garden files.
It really saved my butt when I lost PICASA. That is my fav. photo editing program and it has been replaced by Google Photo which is krapp for what I like to do.
I remembered my back up and recovered the program from there.
Spring is coming, glad to say it. Robins are in the bare spots with the melting we are having but it looks like months befor I can get to the gardens.