Attached Link: http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm

Try the software at the link above, if it works get the full version.

Used an earlier version of this a few months back when my 2nd HDD curled up it's toes. Got well over 90% back.

That taught me to backup better as well. Now my approach is to do stuff in in 2 or 3 working folders. Never the my documents folder because it's tied to a user account that can get corrupted.  Also 1st place nasties will look at.

End of every day I back the stuff over to the new 2nd internal drive and one of 2 external drives. Then couple of times a week backup to CD (not dvd). Can make it hard to find stuff sometimes , but it's better than losing things totally.

Pinky - you left the lens cap of your mind on again.