yeah, definitely a sucky ending. 3 months worth of work down the tubes. All our lovely loops sorted out by BPM are gone. I was lucky my engineer guy backed up all the .wav files or it'd be 3 years worth of work gone.

Ya transfer 100GB worth of files onto the disk.
Check and double check to make sure everything was copied correctly.
Then you restart and all your files are gone except for a few stragglers that survived. Then you've gotta save those back to another hard drive before you restart or those disappear too. Last but not least, the drive refuses to work and absolutely nothing will fix it.
I tried everything... Norton, Apple, Intech, DiskWarrior ... and the best I could do is use the Apple system software to get a small 32GB partition working. The rest of the drive is trashed.