i managed to get some stuff from the hdd of the operating system. After few days it feels like i did not loose anything really important. I do have a bad habit of putting a lot of stuff on my desktop :)
The annoying thing at the moment is installing everything again. especially all the addons, actions and all other stuff.
I started the backup of my photo archive some time ago, but it is a slow process as i don't have enough room to have raw files on 2 different places. But yes, loosing all the photos would hurt. now and every time in the future when i would think about it :)
Well, it's good that there were no big losses!
Oh yes, installing everything at once is a very tedious and long task. And still, after a while, something that you missed to install will be detected.
Hope this terrible thing never happens to us :)