There goes 4 years of Roleplaying history...(Pending)

About a month ago my external hard drive would not connect to my PC or anyone that I knew. I had a somewhat tech friend take a look and concluded it had to be the connection and not the overall device. Well I'm pretty pissed because there maybe a chance of all my information being corrupted. Well I'll keep you guys posted on how that goes because well...my campaign for this summer was gonna be EPIC...but if I lose all that information..well lets just say goodbye 4 years of roleplaying data and a ton of my movies and TV shows T_T