avarice's Blog

Hold your horses there man.

Data recovery can be super-easy but the more HDD activity in between, the more date you'll lose. My personal favorite for end-users is called GetDataBack. The NTFS version is $79; the FAT version is $69, you'll want to check since its running windows 98. That price is great compared to the $2000-$3000 most programs will charge, and this one is just as good. It also offers a demo version if you want to make sure the files you need are recoverable before you buy...or, you know, try anything else out with it.

http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

Missed a detail with your post though. You'll need to have some kind of OS installed to use any of these programs, there's just no way around that unfortunetely.

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On a side note, I promise to stop lurking and start dropping lines within the next couple days; I've been working on one of those crazy 1000 piece puzzles with the tiny little pieces but its coming along better now. That's taking up most of my free time after work and family matters (and a bit of PS3 gaming, I confess), but I need to finish what I started! And what do I get out of it when its all put together? Just a picture of a puppy. Its the remarkably cute, golden retriever variety, but still just a puppy. The funniest part is that my REAL dog almost tried to eat my puzzle pieces, wow I would've had to flip out on him there.