Hey,
Well I got home and the freeware one I left running had crashed ... pc was fine, just a software crap-out.
Amoungst the things I can use is Active stuff, so equipped with that I scanned the 2 drives as a virtual and it found ALL the stuff on it, including of course the stuff I intentionally deleted.
After 5 or so hours of a deep scan, it gives this list of what it says is healthy stuff, but when recovering - stops @ 32.2 mb for each file. WorldInConflict download as an example, shows 1.66g and healthy for recovery and craps @ 32.2m.
Now I`m trying a different strip size on the virtual atm, cos honestly it was all I could think of at the time.