The first thing you should do when you are doing windows data recovery is to shut down the computer you need to do this on. The best thing you can do is find another computer that is running Windows 2000 or XP. You would then download your computer recovery software onto the second computer, and go back to the computer you were on and remove the hard drive from it. Take that hard drive and install it on the second computer as a data drive. A laptop computer hard drive can be connected to your desktop computer with an adapter that is available at most computer stores you go to. You will then want to make sure that your windows program does not use the “Check Disk” utility to repair the drive. Use your data recovery program to do your windows data… [Windows Data Recovery]