Guys, thanks for all the information. I have a small solution, (real small) I took a big summer fan, i had the fan on high, blew it directly to the hard drive, it works little by little. So far, I have recovered I would say about 7 files out of 60. I am starting to recover smaller files like 2-12MB's in size and then nervously going to 200-600MB's in size (most are ISO's.)
I will try that idea of what HotRod was saying, to plop the hard drive off and put it in the fridge for a while and see what happens from there. My financee spoke to me last night, "why not put the whole HD into a CD burner and make one CD" ans Im scratching my head, saying "huh?"
40GB=650MB?? nah
but its worth a guess. I will try to do it once at a time. Funny is that as I was successful in transferring smaller files, its faster, and it deletes faster as I wanted to, then I tried to move on to a bigger one, it gets slower and freezes.
Sigh..
Thanks all..
Wile'