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Did you try mounting it on a SuSe machine again? You mentioned it last worked on that OS.
As for professional data recovery, get your hands on a suite of recovery tools from Winternals, and try using the Disk Commander application. That's what they use. Unless of course they disassemble the drive and physically move the platters to another medium for recovery. This requires clean rooms and other high tech equipment, and will indeed cost AT LEAST a few thousand dollars.
I have successfully recovered several hard drives which had been reformated with this application (fat, fat 32, ntfs, ntfs 5.0). I mean all of it. Blew my mind.
Also, rack your brain for other places you might have copied the files, like an email you sent someone, a floppy, maybe burned to CD, on a friends PC, an assignment you turned in? Who knows it might be out their somewhere.
Good luck,
-bear
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