Cheers Mr Nato 👍....... Nearly 2 months of sweating
To cut a long story short I had the worst possible result and lost EVERYTHING...... all my game data, partly due to me being a 'numpty' and accidentally overwriting my backup.
Had time to be quite philosophical about it now though cos all my games (GT5 incl) will now get a new lease of life so c'est la vie....... losing Skyrim really hurt me though