Originally Posted by
travelsavant
...I surrendered & dropped the HDD off for file recovery.
Oh did I say what caused all this...my ex-house cleaner dropped my laptop!
Oops, I hope ex-house cleaner is legal or you are not running for office... just kidding.
I used a utility called Findpart and was able to recover a drive:
http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm