You need. PhotoRec 6.10 [or latest] - from (Author) cgsecurity.org its nothing short of a fantastic tool for retrieving practically every (common) known system files and extention files It has two powerfull tools that work off of a DOS prompt window (still opens on your desktop.. so not scarry!!) a) PhotoRec -searches drive for stuff like .jpg .png .tiff .txt .xml .gif .psd .pdf etc (list is vast) b) TestDisc -be a little careful with this one, it can recover #Bad sectors, Wipe your #Boot sector and then rewrite a fresh boot.ini file to (re-enable) a lost non start #Hardrive. (tip) no mouse required, use only Up/Down arrow keys and Enter buttons, If you 'click' away to something else on your desktop screen (while PhotoRec is open) you will have to mouse-click the top of the PhotoRec window again to return to just useing the tool and keys only again. ;) (tip) Put #bad HDD in external USB setup, make sure little plastic 'jumper' is placed across the :Slave (2-pin) at rear of duff hardrive -you don't want any 'nasties' that caused the #crash to migrate across to your Main Drive! (Last) Make sure your search is on the external drive, because ALL available drives will be listed including any disc in your DVD-Rom (remove it).