Priced pretty well for an IT guy, but not very sweetly for the home user. Of course it can pay itself off by recovering some critical data, but it's a big chunk of change to put down up front.
Which reminds me.... Time to make new backups of all my data files.
This is the freeware version of the NTFS reader for DOS. I have successfully extracted files from a NTFS volume so damaged that NT wouldn't even run chkdsk on it.
It seems the drivers they are using (their own stuff) are more forgiving than Microsoft's own.
Just remember to put a FAT32 formatted drive in also, so you have somewhere to copy the files to.