Data recovery

[James Takac]

Hi Guys

Have a friend who had his windows hard drive trashed, well, at least the 
bootable partition. Aparently his system froze so he powered it down. When he 
next powered it up it appears the bootable partion got wiped. What I'm 
wondering is, are there any packages out the for Ubuntu that might help 
recover the partion. Or maybe I need a stand alone tool/cd of sorts?

James