Photo/file recovery from Catalogue?

My external storage disc on which i store all my photos has crashed, and like the novice that i am, i have no back up. All the photos can still be viewed in Lightroom but i am unable to save them to a new location, can anyone help please.

Hi Jasonized,
Lucky for me that there are clued up people out there!!
The silly thing is that i was in the process of reducing my Photo data down to good quality photos as my external drive only had 20GB of free space and all my photos on this one drive plus the computer back up, ca 30GB.
I went out to buy the new drive and came back to find the external drive was not registering in explorer. OK now i am setting up a fresh storage system. Thank you for your reply to my query, i have already recovered an important batch of Photos in good quality, thankfully!
Keep up the good work,
Ken
"Jasonized" <mailto:[email protected]> schrieb:
Hey there!
This seems to be coming in a rash, all at once. Another thread answered this one quite nicely, links and all:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/696422?tstart=30
Of course, those programs work best when you have 1:1 previews rendered. If you don't, then all you get are the smaller resolution, etc, etc. But, better than nothing, as people point out!
Backups work!
Cheers!
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