Tim,
Ouch. Really sorry for you.
I will mention that there are businesses that specialize in data recovery from
bad hard drives. It can get expensive depending on how hard you want them to
try. A friend of mine got about 80% of her data off a bad hard drive just over a
year ago, but it cost her around $270 in US dollars as I remember and she had to
wait a couple weeks for the data.
Bill P.
