Any Cubase SX2 or even SX3 users...especially in the UK

As is the norm in our house...the Mrs gets tired of looking at the same four walls and has to decorate.Many times I've come home to find she's repainted this and that.So you can imagine to my horror I've come back from a long weekend to find that she's not only repainted the music room (it's a small bedroom sized room...not Air studios) but inadvertantly cocked up my PC to the point where she's taken it to be 'repaired' while I've been away...thinking that I won't notice anythings up when I got back.The PC repair shop has done what most shops do in that they wipe a lot of stuff on it unless you tell them otherwise.
So I switch on .....and all my music has disappeared.Fortunately all my audio etc is backed up but my software ie.Cubase SX2 is gone.Of all the discs I have (soundforge etc) the Cubase stuff I cannot find.There is nothing in my PC that even recognises that cubase ever existed.So I'm knackered.

I don't know whether I'm breaking any rules here but is there anyone out there who can help me out.I haven't got the funds at present to buy Version 4 or 5 and I've been using Sx2 for years so I'm cosy with it.Any help would be greatly appreciated.

That's probably a no then.Looks like I'll have to re think ...................?

Try your post in the Recording in Progress forum. You might be able to find someone there.:cool:

Ohhh .....you have already.

Sorry tweeet, I use a Mac but how about downloading 'Reaper' to get you going again and then going to see the cowboys that did the work, if they are removing stuff without asking lets hope they kept some kind of copy as a safe guard, sounds like they just re-installed the OS and deleted everything that was there to start with, much easier than actually repairing the thing.

Sorry tweeet, I use a Mac but how about downloading 'Reaper' to get you going again and then going to see the cowboys that did the work, if they are removing stuff without asking lets hope they kept some kind of copy as a safe guard, sounds like they just re-installed the OS and deleted everything that was there to start with, much easier than actually repairing the thing.

I think that's exactly what they did.

I've been messaged by someone in far away Australia who is kindly sending me a copy of his software so many thanks to him.

Well done Tweet, you kept a backup of your data, not many people do that.

But you're supposed to keep your master installation disks too so you can re-install all the software (sorry mate, I use Sonar).

Windoze comes with a backup program called rather imaginatively Backup (aka NTBackup and cunningly hidden), best run to another physical hard disk. Another hard disk is lot cheaper than a stack of DVD.

Just want to thank Dave O from Australia for trying to help me out.