if you search for things like "jpeg recovery" or "photo recovery", there are some programs that will scan drives with broken filesystems and look for the JPEG file signatures. I haven't actually used any of them myself, so that's about as helpful as I can be here.
SHIIIIIIIIIIT! (that's all I can say, really. I don't know much about data recovery and often end up in your current situation going "Gah! HELP MEEE! at these points).
I don't believe it. Honestly, I don't understand how you think it's ok to be so completely horrible to me, in person and indirectly, and then turn around and act like you've done nothing wrong and you're on ok person.
Not my intention. My intention was seeing someone who had computer problems, and I offered to help. Not as a friend, but as someone who had the skills.
Have you asked Marlboro IT? They were very helpful when something happened to a computer of mine several years ago - I think that was the time my motherboard fritzed out. (It wasn't the time I shattered the monitor, I don't think.) Anyway, my vague idea is that you need someone with a system that can set it up next to yours, plug into your hard drive, and pull the stuff off of it, ignoring the "not formatted" nonsense. That's about all I know, but it seems to me it should be feasible. Good luck!
This is a Windows machine, yes? I'd try booting with a linux-based rescue CD. Linux's disk logic is sometimes less demanding about correctness than the Windows equivalent. Usually, when a drive claims to have lost formatting, it's really that a few bits of data have been lost from the beginning of the drive. If Linux cannot actually mount the drive, it may be still be possible to view the drive as a stream of bytes -- then you can do the trick that Kevin suggested of scanning for things that look like images. Hm. Do you know what format the drive is in? (NTFS, FAT, etc?) It looks like http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk might be what you're looking for, but consider following their instructions for "Recover Damaged Hard Disks"
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for example: http://www.student.dtu.dk/~s042078/magicrescue/
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(that's all I can say, really. I don't know much about data recovery and often end up in your current situation going "Gah! HELP MEEE! at these points).
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I'd try booting with a linux-based rescue CD. Linux's disk logic is sometimes less demanding about correctness than the Windows equivalent.
Usually, when a drive claims to have lost formatting, it's really that a few bits of data have been lost from the beginning of the drive.
If Linux cannot actually mount the drive, it may be still be possible to view the drive as a stream of bytes -- then you can do the trick that Kevin suggested of scanning for things that look like images.
Hm. Do you know what format the drive is in? (NTFS, FAT, etc?)
It looks like http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk might be what you're looking for, but consider following their instructions for "Recover Damaged Hard Disks"
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