Crash!

My computer has been running pretty slow lately, so I decided to back up all my files and reformat. I burned everything to disks, Cd's and DVD's, and started deleting files. I went back to check my disks because there was some stuff I was still actively working on, only to find out that the burning failed. I never got an error message, according to my computer everything turned out just fine. But the disks are blank. I lost journals, family photos, and digital scrapbook pages. If it wasn't for blogging, I would have lost everything. I was able to recover so many family photos from blogspot, and I'm more thankful than ever for this website!!! Also I bought some software that recovers permanently deleted files, unless they've already been written over, and I got some of my stuff back. The rest of it is lost forever... I just have to start from scratch again, and be better about backing stuff up more often, and in more than one place.