|
Doesn't sound like you have lots of options given the time. Not for a low-level recovery with any safety. The recovery utilities can take a long time. For 40GB drive I'd give it an hour to scan, then another hour to copy the files you select.
I'd get the new stuff running and take the 40GB drive with me for recovery. You're back in a week. They'll live, and you get to think about what you're doing instead of running on adrenaline.
__________________
There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
|