Before you pay anyone to try to recover your data, you can pop by Sim Lim or other IT shop to purchase a IDE/SATA to USB cable, which looks like this: http://www.chinawholesalegift.com/Electric-Gifts/Computer-Hardware-Accessories/Cable/USB-2-0-to-IDE---SATA-Cable-133206398/Then you can simply pull out your harddisk from the old PC, hook it up with the cable and then plug it into your new PC/notebook like an external hard drive. Unless your PC crashed due to hard disk failure, else you should be able to extract your data from it.