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GetDataBack, a program I've used before - and had forgotten about - I managed to retrieve everything that I'd lost from my dead drive: mail, MP3s, documents...everything. I am a happy, happy man. The bonus? A clean installation of XP, something that every Windows user has learned to treasure. The downside? I still have to install my entire development environment, including all the in-house design tools and the game itself. And that, my friends, is a long and drawn-out process. Still, I've been lucky, and I will not complain. And
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