recovering data from a corrupt harddrive

[Steve]

Anyone know how I can recover my data from a hard drive I've recently
corrupted (its a long story). Whilst in the process of moving/renaming
partitions I've managed to corrupt my harddrive which contains an xp
operating system, four partitions and 150 gigabytes of movies etc. I've
now installed xp on my other drive but it wont recognise the other one.
Infact its not recognising the other disc or its patitions at all, even thru
windows recovery 'chkdsk' where it just says disk it unformatted. Norton
disc doctor at least recognised the disc as corrupted (and unformatted) and
declares a bad partion table but is unable to fix it. I think my data is
probably lost for good and I'm going to have to reformat but if any one has
any ideas I could try before I resort to that, I would be very grateful

Steve

 

[chad]

Hi Steve,

Here's a basic roundup of some freeware data recovery tools:

http://free-backup.info/data-recovery-software.htm

Hope this helps, good luck!