Thank you both for the ideas. Geddy, Im completely comfortable cryo treating car stuff, but Ive never done computer stuff, but an interesting idea though.
My recovery program is still running. Its been running now for the better part of 12 hours it might be a stretch to say its 25% complete at this point. Right now Im in hiatus on my laptop until I can get that data off because it has my email and my business back up data.
Also on that drive is a list of all the software I had installed. A lot of it open source, but I dont remember it all. Ive installed all that I can recall having but I need that list as well so that I can get all the software back I had. That list had information, links, names, etc.
Anyway, we'll see how the file recovery goes first and go from there.
Oh, let me ask this. Does anyone out there use any type of open source invoicing/inventory software? I dont even mind it being web based as I can set up a test server on my laptop to run everything. I just need a really good, free if possible, open source set up. Im tired of paying for commercial solutions.