My laptop purely crashed! any suggestions on recovery software?

If I can download free that would be great, but I will pay if it allows me to download folders of info, instead of individual files which will bring forever!

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"> you didn't say if it boots bygone BIOS. Get a friend to download an ISO copy of "Knoppix" It's a Linux bootable CD. You will be capable of copy and paste your background to an external drive or Knoppix comes with a disc burning program.

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