Corrupt Hard Drive ..Any help?

My hard drive just shit itself...well on Monday actually.
I have use a free restore prog from www.pcinspector.de which takes ages to run, (throwing up a bunch of errors along the way) and only found a few of my valuable files. (and a LOT of crap i don't need)
But i still have more files on the drive i would like to get off.
Does anyone have any other ideas?

it has thought me a lesson...do more regular backups!!!!!
(you know...i thought i learn't this the last time!)

If the drive is old & worn out, there is a desperate last measure. Seal the drive in a zip-lock bag and leave it in the freezer overnight. Get everything ready ahead of time, then take the drive out of the freezer, plug it in and recover as much data as you can before it warms up.

A professional recovery service is expensive. It depends on how valuable your data is & how many $$ you want to spend to try to get it back.

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My hard drive just shit itself...well on Monday actually.
I have use a free restore prog from www.pcinspector.de which takes ages to run, (throwing up a bunch of errors along the way) and only found a few of my valuable files. (and a LOT of crap i don't need)
But i still have more files on the drive i would like to get off.
Does anyone have any other ideas?

it has thought me a lesson...do more regular backups!!!!!
(you know...i thought i learn't this the last time!)

Clarify shit it's self. Errors?

Clarify shit it's self. Errors?


PC started fine in tha AM.
When i came back to it in 1/2 Hour it had shut itself down.
Would not restart.
It was constantly resetting itself...it would dispaly the bios info, then the windows splash screen then reset...with a fatal error.

So i removed the drive and tried it in a different PC, (as a slave) an in that set it would only come up as an empty drive: 0 Bytes

I have now installed a new Hard drive in this PC, but would like to extract some files off the old drive and if possible get it working again: possiby by reformatting it... chkdsk ?
But getting it working again is not the priorioty, i would just like to get some more files off.

Hey, OP!

People are giving you the help you requested, here.

It might be polite to respond, occasionally.

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I have now installed a new Hard drive in this PC, but would like to extract some files off the old drive and if possible get it working again: possiby by reformatting it... chkdsk ?
But getting it working again is not the priorioty, i would just like to get some more files off.

When you do recover all the files throw that thing in the bin.

Don't worry about it. Drives are cheap and you can restore your files from the backups you made.
You have backed up your data right?????
No???????
First three rules of computing.
1. Backup
2. Backup
3. Backup
Even brand spanking new drives fail. All drives fail eventually.
It's worth a few buck to start backing up your data.

find a copy of hirens boot CD it has everything you need.

Don't worry about it. Drives are cheap and you can restore your files from the backups you made.
You have backed up your data right?????
No???????
First three rules of computing.
1. Backup
2. Backup
3. Backup
Even brand spanking new drives fail. All drives fail eventually.
It's worth a few buck to start backing up your data.