Alright, today I noticed a bunch of problems with my laptop. And decided that the smart thing to do was to reboot. Hm... not so sure if it was smart anymore as upon reboot, I got the infamous blue screen of death -- some general protection fault.

So, I used the boot disk and ran chkdsk to recover XP and information on the hard drive, and rebooted. Now, there are a bunch of errors (incorrect file images, corrupt files, etc.) and most problematic for me, my outlook.pst file now says 0 bytes.

Now I am running chkdsk using the boot disk again hoping that it will recover some more information.

But I don't think this is good enough. The question I have is, what tools are available for me to recover the hard drive? I can't live without my outlook file -- it has all my e-mails and my entire contact list -- both are golden information to me.

Unfortunately, I have no backups as I didn't get around to making it recently.

Any advice and suggestions are greatly appreciated. I'm panicking quite a bit and well... yeah. Thanks in advance!