I had a client call me that their computer wouldn’t boot…upon closer examination, the hard drive was ‘blank’…all my existing software showed it as ‘unallocated’.  I was ready to let the client know that everything was missing when I decided to try to find a way to recover a partition.    After googling it, I found a software package called ‘Active@Partition Recovery’.  I purchased the ‘high end’ version for $99.  Either I was going to salvage the data and be the hero or else be out $99 but be a bit wiser.   I ran the program and it found and recoverd the partition!  I had to run fixmbr to repair the mbr on the disk, but everything was back!  I am now a big-time fan of this software!  Check it out at www.partition-recovery.com!