I've known people use Vogon International (Now called Kroll Ontrack, I think), and been successful there. Be careful about giving the drive to a load repair pl

I've known people use Vogon International (Now called Kroll Ontrack, I think), and been successful there. Be careful about giving the drive to a load repair place, unless they've got someone who knows data recovery, then they could well destroy any chance of getting your files. If the disk seems mechanically ok, then you can try a quick recovery yourself, in my experience the best program for this is RunTime's GetDataBack - it should be able to recover most files, assuming the disk is still working and it's just FS/Software corruption.