If it's pictures and videos you might have luck with file recovery programs that run in DOS or LINUX, as long as your computer will allow the bios to make it to DVD DRIVE booting. Sometimes bad hard drives will stop the bios from ever moving from the first page while if tries to read the bad drive. Also need to set your DVD as first boot drive. There are other partition programs designed to recover lost partitions tables and recover bad or missing Master Boot Areas. These are quite tricky and need a bit of reading first. More than likely you will be using something like this. But there is another option, WINHEX is designed to help police in investigating crimes where drive contents have been deleted or purposely damaged even physically but not all drives can be read in the damaged cases. They would require removing the discs or repairing the pick ups first. Since yours has windows expecting to format it first I suspect it's a partition problem, WINHEX should be able to read it. You would leave the drive...

Epson xp300 paper jam every time even with no paper. i took it apart and found out exactly what is going on with these printers. i also took pictures of the area that needs attention. it's a simple fix and it's due to epson's poor design. they have not allowed enough material to hold the paper jam detector in the correct position. The sensor works off of a small black or brown piece of plastic that runs across the back of the roller assembly that catches the edge of the paper to get it started into the carriage area. One end goes to the main circuit board and controls a hall effect switch, the other end goes to the middle of the paper feed area and has a thin arm that sticks in between the rollers and it swings when paper is fed past it. When it swings the hall effect switch is open. meaning the switch is not detecting the normal blocked state by the arm. the arm will swing to open the area that is normally closed and will block the path of the switch. So the cause of the jam is due directly to the tabs...