I wouldn't give up just yet! Your techie friends might not have had the final answer. First of all, there are several possibilities. You may have had a hard drive crash, or window's may have melted down, or some of the fat table may have been scrambled. But unless you had a catastrophic disk failure, the images are still on that hard drive and their are recovery services that can recover them for a fee. I have never yet seen a hard drive on a system that melted down that could not have some of its data recovered. So you may want to get a second opinion. Just type "disk recovery" into Google for tons of services for this sort of problem.
Cheers,
rfs
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