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well, my attempts at using various livecds and other methods have failed -- and i fear my drive is unrecoverable...nonetheless i'm trying one last thing...
as i put the boot cd in, this is what i'm greeted with:

up a creek...
right now (and most of the day) i've been looking at this roll across my laptop screen...
File record segment 61292 is unreadable.
File record segment 61293 is unreadable.
File record segment 61294 is unreadable.
File record segment 61295 is unreadable.
File record segment 61296 is unreadable.
about a million times...
this is on a laptop i needed to get some data off of and haven't used in a while. booted up to "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME"
bsod -- wonderful.
so as i look at chkdsk scan away, i'm weighing how much that data really is worth and if recovery is even an option...woe is me.