As long as yu have the CDs and shiny new drives, look at it as an excuse to evaluate lossless formats, rethink your naming scheme, and sit back while you re-rip.
Your luck sounds much like mine. I was rearranging drives. I knew I had current backups. I hit the delete key. 15 seconds later, the auto backup kicked in. Did it's job perfectly, everything was erased on the backup drives just like it should...
R-Studio works great when it is simple like that, but I have also used it to recover from bad drives.
Good luck!
Worst thing I ever done like that was to buy a brandnew hard drive.
Maxtor 10gb (When 10gb was an unusable amount of space).
I unscrewed the bay on the case which also held the floppy drive, and the old drive.
Screwed the new drive into the bay, then put
the bay back. Now because I wanted to clone the existing drive on to
the new one and then remove the old drive, i thought "hell no need to screw
the bay back in, i'll just slot it back in place"....
Famous last words...
Got the computer booted up...
started copying across.
Then forgot what i'd done and put a floppy disk in the floppy drive, however the last push
to engage didn't push the disk into the drive, it pushed the bay off of the rails.
The bay was at the top of a full size tower case, crashed down to the bottom.
both drives never read another byte of data.
I'm not usually a swearing person...
but I made up for it that day!