Recover Hard Disk Data

[KickerNotch]

An option that I am most used to since I've had a number of OS/drive crashes that I have had to recover from is to use Knoppix, a bootable Linux distro. I recently was swapping out a drive I wanted to reformat and fogot to swap a cable and accidently started to format the wrong drive. I pretty much killed the MBR and made the machine unbootable as well as killing the partition table but I was able to use Knoppix to rebuild the most significant partitions and than use my router to back up my key files on my laptop. If you opt to use it look up info on testdisk and gpart(ed).