Photoshop Corrupted File Help?

I have read on here that several people are having issues with this particular thing but mine seemed a little different so I thought I would start a discussion and ask.
OK first off, I'm use photoshop 7 (old I know but meh, you use why you can afford), and I really have had no problems with ps, just the other day I was working on something anI just clicked to save it (which the progress bar showed it had started to) when all a sudden the power goes out! Aparently a char hit a transformer or pole or something nearby, or so I heard, and so when I went to open the document was corrupted.
it didnt say that the file was when I opened it and even when went to "open" instead of "open recient documents", the thumbnail showed my work was still there or at least to a point where I had been the previous time I saved. So when I open it, the file is just a one layered document (when it's supposed to have like 200+ layers) and it's all black.
i tried several of those restore programs but either you have to pay to get the save feature out of them (if I had that kind of money I would just buy a new ps...) or they just don't work...
now I'm not saying this is adobe's fault or anything so please don't be snarky or something about that, what I'm doing here is trying to see if anyone else might have had a very similar experience and possibly had a way to fix this issue.
thank you all for those who read and I look forward to reading your responses.

fookyue wrote:
…was in the middle of working on it and was planning on continuing to do so when the power went out... it's not like i had planned for it to happen...
For the benefit of enlightened future readers of this thread, I mention for the umpteenth time in my 8 or 9 years in these Adobe forums that power outages are the reason why each and every one of my computers, their monitors and hard drives are connected to their individual APC-brand Back-UPS RS 1500 XS Uninterruptible Power Supply unit.
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BX1500G
I have some of them for well over a decade and they have proven to be an excellent and wise investment over time, which in the grand scheme of things is fully justified.
A power outage can take out an unprotected hard drive as easily as it can corrupt the file(s) you were working on at the time.
It's all about safeguarding your work and your digital assets, not about offering unrequested excuses for not doing it.

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