[theDentist]

Not sure this will help, bujt when my laptop (as I type on it now) got clobbered by a virus, one of the guys at the office used a Linux product (free to doanload) called Knoppix to recover ALL my files. It was very time consuming, but I was able to fully recover. You burn it to a CD and boot off the CD. Then you can copy files from the hard drive to another PC. You cannot edit files, delete them etc. Pretty much copy only. Check it out. I hope it helps.

[solitas]

Not sure this will help, bujt when my laptop (as I type on it now) got clobbered by a virus, one of the guys at the office used a Linux product (free to doanload) called Knoppix to recover ALL my files. It was very time consuming, but I was able to fully recover. You burn it to a CD and boot off the CD. Then you can copy files from the hard drive to another PC. You cannot edit files, delete them etc. Pretty much copy only. Check it out. I hope it helps.

Knoppix is a CD-based implementation of BSD Linux with a GUI and all the features of a standard system.
You sure as hell CAN edit and delete files if you don't know what you're doing!
If you _do_ make a CD and boot from it: see just how easy it works, how secure, and think about NOT going back to a micro$oft OS...

http://www.knoppix.net