My laptop died with all my uni work on it. A poor student in a blue screen of death pit of despair, I rang a few data recovery companies and I could not believe the prices quoted. I tried every free data recovery software and disk partition recovery I could find. I spent hours looking at cross-linked files and rescue disks and trying many different things. In the end I knew I had to bite the bullet with an expert, so did some more shopping around. Hull Data Recovery were the cheapest and seemed pretty confident on the phone of success, although did highlight that the sooner I got it to them the better as my DIY attempts were likely reducing the chance of full data recovery. In hindsight I should have just used them in the first place, as they did a brilliant job in quick time and salvaged 90% of my work. Thanks guys, life-saver!