Thank you bitMart!. I had an IBM ThinkPad with a 40GB hard drive that started making a very loud noise. After a reboot I received the message that 'No Operating System' was found. After further investigation it looked like the MFT was corrupted. I tried using NTFS4DOS to pull data off, but could not get into most of the directories because of the corruption. CHKDSK would not run to completion and I could not access the file system data from windows when I added the drive to another laptop. When I tried the demo I was able to scan the drive (about 4 hours) and then successfully restore some of the small word documents from the drive. I purchased the Pro version & was able to recover all of my needed data (about 10GB). My only complaint with this software is that after installing the Pro version I had to rescan the drive (another 4 hours of waiting) before I could start restoring the files. It would be nice if there was a way to save the scan information from the demo and open it back up in the Pro version…. Maybe in the next release?
-Matt