help! windows says that partition is corrupted!

[fat-600]

hey there, well my hard drive partition has decided to throw the toys out the pram..
is there any software out there that can get into my drive and image or extract the files? even tho i cant get into the drive on my computer?
OS is windows XP pro.
thanks for any help guys, i dont really want to reformat
i will be so thankful if this can be sorted,
thanks guys, your awesome

 

[fat-600]

drive is not knackard, as i got windows on one partition and my documents on the other, its my doucments thats failed, i will go out and buy another hard drive later on today then, thanks

 

[fat-600]

thanks for the info mate, i did pull the drive out and put it as a slave in a second rig i had, and then nothing, so i give up, put it back into this one now and when i started it up checkdisk started to scan my disk, then next thing you know it fixed it!

im happy
thanks badboi
(im now gonna go get another hard drive and mirror my drives!)