Quote Originally Posted by Lilbaby
Any suggestions on how to get my data?
Would using Knoppix work? If so how do I do this?
1) Don't double post in the forums. Imagine how cluttered things would be if everyone who thought their issue was important did that. Pick whatever forum you think best fits the problem and post there. If a moderator see that it would fit better elsewhere he may move it for you.

2) I sure hope the guys that you took this to didn't make things worse (they often do).

3) Knoppix may very well help, but you have to participate. I suggest reading through the wiki found through the documentation link at the top of this page. There you should find information on how to download the files, check the iso, and properly burn a disc. Then put the hard drive in a computer, insert the optical disc of Koppix and boot Knoppix. From there you should be able to determine if Knoppix can read the disk. If so you have a number of options for recovering files, including transferring them to another computer on a network, writing them to a USB flash drive and even e-mailing them to yourself (and other ways). I'm not going to write you an entire book on how to use Knoppix here, but the information you want is all on this site.