Re: hard drive recovery
Buy a cheap second drive and buy something for recovery purposes, if in doubt there're probably reviews in PC Pro or similar magazines that you can rely on fairly well. Assuming it boots off a CD and you're restoring to another partition it should be a non-destructive operation, so if it doesn't work you can still go to the data recovery specialist route but I'd be prepared to spend a fair amount of money on it, and often with success metrics that mean you can still be missing data and owe them money.
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