Testdisk is great. I recently cleaned a drive with diskpart and after the initial 100bpm “oh shit, wrong drive” moment, I fixed the partition structure with testdisk. Took a while, but pretty simple and easy to use.
Ha ha, a post about the Eee! Dug my 1000H out of the attic a few weeks back, put Mint xfce on it and it works great, pretty zippy! Then I put it back in the attic.
Don’t know what type of games you mean, but for scans and tidied up pdfs I use tesera.ru, boardgamer.ru, boardgamegeek file section, posts like this (t.me/s/Printandplaygame/39), soulseek and so on.
Edit, sorry, that insert word/url thing isn’t working for me.