System Failure While Installing Software: 76gb free HD space? Data Gone?

While installing software on my less than one year old mini, the installation hung and had to boot system. Upon restart, flashing icons, (folder, apple emblem, circle with slash) then just folder with ?.
I then booted from install disk, ran disk utility. Now I have one folder with nothing in it. Can not boot to start up disk (doesn't recognize).
Apple will test and fix under warranty, but, I need to know if data is recoverable. Normally I wouldn't care about the data, but my wife recently passed away and I really need to recover what I can.
I have tried DiskWarrior, but it says the drive is ok, but only shows the one folder. Data Recovery from Pro Soft (bootable demo version) doesn't appear to be
helping much either.
Any ideas out there?

The fact that multiple "players" are involved in this scenario makes me worry that someone has erased and reformatted the hard drive along the way.
Hopefully that didn't happen, but 76 gig free is ominous on a 80 gig drive, because so-called 80 gig drives in fact hold 76 gig -- but as you suggest, it could just be the recovery program's way of reporting the disk size.
Nonetheless, unless the disk has been "zeroed" (which takes a fair amount of time and effort) some data should be recoverable with the right techniques.
The devil is in the details, though. So please provide as much info as possible about what has happened so far. And also, what kinds of files you want to recover?

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