How to recover my files from Lightroom Catalog?

I lost my (NEF) files from hard drive.My Lightroom 1.4 Catalog is on separate hard drive.It is possible to recover my files?

If you have no way of recovering the original .nef files then these are gone forever.
The best then that you can hope for is to extract .jpg files from Lightroom's Preview files. These are in the .lrdata folder next to your catalog (.lrcat) files. Your results will also depend on the size/quality of previews that you had generated.
If you are on Windows (I have only ever tried this on Windows Xp), then you can download lightroom_recover from here:
http://www.ploki.info/index.php?pagename=Main.LightRoomRecover
It will extract .jpg, but they have the same unwieldy names as Lightroom gives to the preview (.noindex) files.
If you still have the disc from which you lost your .nef files it may be worth searching for a data/image recovery program or indeed having a look at recycle/trash first.

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