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Originally Posted by justFred
spin-rite
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with a lot of experience on recovering mostly ide hdds, spinrite 6.0 is the best program around. i was able to recovere 9 out of 10 hdds.
it will correct majority of bad sectors. make sure S.M.A.R.T. option in BIOS is turned on. this program will recover most of your data. use the last read/recover/write option, which is the slowest by the way. it will take a lot of time to recover data (could be days or even weeks). all depends on how much your data stored there is worth(less).
then you can use Victoria, russian hdd recovery masterpeace (a freeware program), to mark all those sectors bad (use the fastest option, because apperance of bad sectors is a deteriorating and erosive process and it will mark 256 sectors at once as bad).
if your data worths a lot, send your hdd to a company specialized in data recovery. this could cost thousands of dollars and can take weeks to get your data.
in any case, prepare to waste a lot of time on waiting for data to be recovered...