Well, my hard drive crashed Sunday so I lost my 2000+ songs that I had downloaded from Limewire. I was going to dump them anyway because Limewire was giving my system a lot of trouble.
Problem is - STUPID ME I hadn't backed up the stuff I really needed like resumes and cross stitch patterns.
Check out Active File Recovery 7.1 - works great unless the disk or the spindle itself has been damaged.
I had a HD that got over capacity full (how, I dunno!) - I made it a slave and that program was able to recover everything.