Please be gentle here, I am sick over the mistake I just made. I have been doing some backing vocals on a soon to be finished HD-24 project for myself and was attempting a 3 track cut and paste. It was a small section of the chorus that I thought I would use to open the song. I set the start point and then would set the stop point and then when I would play back the section I only get 5 seconds of playback. Exactly five. This is where it gets real bad. The manual has a blurb about buffering and I figure that is the problem so I head into the utility section to turn off the buffering. I do that then attempt to get out of utility and can't. I toggle over and over the pages and can't find the way out, Impatiently I hold the utility button down and the next thing I know, the machine erases the hard drive! It didn't even give me the option of denying the function. Now it gets worse,,,no back-up. I know, I know,,,,always back-up!!!!! Well I didn't. Question is, can this thing be retrieved?? I know I may be dreaming but at this point,I don't need a scolding, just simple yes or no will do,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,help....................