Hard Drive recovery is my speciality
if your pc is totally dead it's more than likley to be PSU / Motherboard in which case your data should be safe and would be readable in another pc although ......
if you were running XP and had a password on your username your documents folder may appear to be empty ( your data is still there just not accesible ) you would then need to reset folder permissions with software such as "winternals ERD commander" (bootable cd)
if you have been very unfortunate and the drive is not visable as a slave and/or is making strange noises/not spinning etc i can still recover the data for you
PS dont worry about the "porn" 99.999% of the drives that i repair/recover have plenty
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