NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
If you really want to save your data, you can take it to a data recovery place.
I know London Drugs can do it, and it probably won't cost you too much. (Rescuing my crashed hard drive was $150, so rescuing files being locked away by an OS that everyone knows about shouldn't be too painful).
Actually, for that matter, couldn't you rescue the files via any copy of XP Pro?
Do you know anyone who has it?
I know what it's like to lose data.
Ages ago, I made the brilliant decision to carry the working files for a tiny cartoon I was working on a 100 MB Zip Card.
It turned out to be the best (and only) Flash cartoon I ever did, and, because Zip card security features are garbage (and I was foolish enough to use it!), it was very quickly lost.
(And the only not-so-final compilation ended up on a CD in the hands of someone who caused it to be burried under an unknown pile of garbage).
If you really want to save your data, you can take it to a data recovery place.
I know London Drugs can do it, and it probably won't cost you too much. (Rescuing my crashed hard drive was $150, so rescuing files being locked away by an OS that everyone knows about shouldn't be too painful).
Actually, for that matter, couldn't you rescue the files via any copy of XP Pro?
Do you know anyone who has it?
I know what it's like to lose data.
Ages ago, I made the brilliant decision to carry the working files for a tiny cartoon I was working on a 100 MB Zip Card.
It turned out to be the best (and only) Flash cartoon I ever did, and, because Zip card security features are garbage (and I was foolish enough to use it!), it was very quickly lost.
(And the only not-so-final compilation ended up on a CD in the hands of someone who caused it to be burried under an unknown pile of garbage).