At work, we had a PI come in and drop off a computer (laptop) to us. He said this was part of a divorce case, and the wife wanted us to look for any incriminating evidence. But she couldn't start the computer. When I booted it up, the message "bootmgr missing" came up. So we took the hard drive out, and put it in another drive to see if we could recover any data. It was wiped. But......that's not where the story ends. Using a tool that recovers data that is deleted, as long as the sector wasn't over written, we have, to date, recovered over 30 thousand files. Many .doc, .txt and .jpg files. I think that hubby is going to be quite upset after the process is done.