OK. Opened up, changed the drive. Started up the way it did first time. And, my presets are still there! YAAAY. The one's that called for samples or the P5 library show no samples but are playing some sound.
Updated to 1.2.1 through USB and still good restart.
Crucial moment - put in the USB drive of samples I last used before bricking. Baited breath while the start bar moves up................SUCCESS! All samples are loaded and patches that used them got em.
I hope further restarts are successful but nothing new gets loaded until Sequential sorts it out. Also hitting Global on U1 with generric oscs so it starts always there, I'll send the drive back in a day or so so maybe that'll give some clues.
Dan
EDIT: Woops! updated to 1.2 not 2.0, doing it now...........Still good. Phewwww