Unfortunate Events

Recently, I just started a new project creating an original creature (you can view shots of it on my homepage at therightchoyce.com). I had it all textured and ready for a high-poly creation to get it normal mapped. All of a sudden, in the process of backing up my files to another hard drive, the hard drive containing all the files for the creature and any work I did for the past 3 months had crashed. Completely gone, no more. All I have left are those few pictures of what was going to be some of the greatest work to date. No looking back now... Gotta keep going forward