Just browsing around, it appears that data recovery of a typical hard drive is going to run around ~$500. Just a reminder that backing up is cheap!
In other news,
Knoppix saves the day!
I booted my Win2k system with it and even though it had a bunch of read errors on the damaged hard drive, it was able to mount the partition with little Max's photos.
[ December 20, 2006: Message edited by: Joe Ess ]