With Sandy and some of the new questions popping up like this one:

All servers flooded by salt water, is it possible to recover data from multi-platter drives?

It seems like we may want to setup a standard data recovery question that lists potential things to do in the event of a data recovery scenario. By default all questions like this tend to solicit lots of debate and ideas as to what can be done.

Should we setup a new canonical answer regarding data recovery and then mark all others as duplicates?