Ballaks ... another teccie problem

Afternoon all ... fresh from my 'pinking drive' last week I've now got fresh problems.

Firstly, good call to all on here who said it was a HD problem I had ... it was ... and the drive died, although not completely.

I was able to set the new [dead] drive as a slave to my old drive in my old computer and was able to read some parts of the dead drive from there.

Unfortunately I dropped a bit of clanger by then trying to 'fix' the drive using XP's CHKDSK ... bugger.

CHKDSK kindly 'fixed' the HD by seemingly deleting everything that it couldn't read. I can now happily browse around large parts of the dead HD such as program files etc (all the stuff I could have reinstalled anyway) but it seems to have emptied the contents of the My Documents section ... which is pretty much the only part of the drive I was actually interested in saving. I have over 20gig of video clips in My Docs (or rather had) from a wedding video I had re-edited. It was about 8 weeks work all in all and I really, really don't want to lose it.

I'm told that CHKDSK has problem re-allocated all files from bad sectors as .chk files and I can see from the net that there are a few utilities that can restore from those files.

Can anyone recommend how best to proceed or does anyone have any experience of using any particular utility. I'm quite happy to part with brass if needs be to get the better recovery programs, owt is preferable to losing all that work.

Any ideas greatly received at this point.

 

Got you all stumped with this one eh ?

 

You lost me at 'afternoon all'

 

Bugger ...

And here I was putting all my cash on you being the one to solve the problem for me.

 

RE: Bugger ...

I have tried various recovery programs for days on one of my old hard drives that wasn't playing ball and they came back with bod all. If the data is that important you might want to get a quote from the experts before you **** anything else up.