sort of getting back to teh data recovery thing i do know people who have tried the freezer trick with hard drives and had mixed results from been able to grab a few mb to a few gb of data beofre teh drive failed.Please kids dont go throwing a hard drive into teh freezer theres a little more to it than that lol
seen as were talking whacky methods heres mine ( meant as joke dont do it)
take hard drive to police station and tell them gary glitter sent it to you
the police will send it to forensics who will use propper methods to examine teh hard drive
offer £20 to the police fund for a copy of whatever they retrieve

(once it is confirmed theres no nasty stuff on it )