Yet another archaeology excavation.

Not sure if you saw my other comment, but I hope you already salvaged your drive. Thanks for sharing. One of the worst feelings is losing rare versions of stuff.

Copy-pasting my previous comment here:
The first thing you should do if you haven't already is to transfer everything still accessible into a brand new hard drive. Then you can talk about data recovery software. There's plenty of good ones to choose but be prepared to pay or to torrent.

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