[andrewas]

First up, there is *no* budget on this one - I cant spend a penny. And certainly not the 6000 that profesional data recovery was costing the last time I checked.

The problem is simple - I have a corrupt FAT32 harddrive full of highly valuable and non-backed-up data (this system predates my employment here).

Scandisk throws up about a thousand errors, including a corrupt root directory, corrupt folders all over the place. File names are corrupted as well. Looking at what Im seeing, I think (hope) its the FAT table and not the actual files that are broken.

Question is, is there any free data recovery software that can recover data from damaged drives, without a file size limit like all the free ones Ive seen? I dont care what it runs on, I have a linux box here and most flavours of windows.