O.K. What I did is I purchased a program online called, "Imagerecall 3". $39.00 for the program. I was able to salvage 29GB worth of pics, mp3's, docs and .exe files that I have saved over many years. The only problem I had is I only had 30GB of free space left on my, "c:" drive. Just barely enough to save the entire thing. I am now going through each of my partitions to see what else is out there. I am seeing things that I don't remember saving.
WARNING!! Do not use this program when the wife or significant other is nearby. They will be asking questions. like, "who are those girls you are having your picture with at Hooters?" Yes, I did delete those pictures 2 years ago!!!
Here is the website, it's truley a great program. Great reviews on it too. Also supports Mac OS X.