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Originally posted by slodave
Only turn the computer on sparringly. The more it gets turned on and off, the more likley data will be lost.
Dave
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This is good advice - windows writes and rewrites data to its page file, which could overwrite some of the data to be recovered, so the more windows operates, the more could be overwritten.
I do not envy your brother in law one bit. This happened to me once, due to a virus. It was the only night in my life I've ever been unable to sleep due to stress. Luckily I was in university at the time and had access to techno guys who were able to recover enough for me, although I remember calling around to a few data recovery places, and their prices were lower than what some folks are saying here (maybe $2-300)
Good luck.
Chris