Recovery of Data from Bad Drive

[Skeeter]

Hi

rite, my mates laptop HDD died (allong with the rest of the laptop, by the looks of it) So ive take the HDD out and got a 2.5 to 3.5 addapter to stick it on the IDE cable in my PC and try to recover her photos and music. What tools can i use to:

a) assess the HDD for damage, see if its physical or data, and highlight any bad areas etc

b) recover the data off the drive.

Cheers

 

[Skeeter]

The drive works. the laptop still booted, but with random crashes, file errors and a nice message when you booted that said something allong the lines of "System Disk Failure Iminent"

The Drive is a Seagate, Ill go have a look! cheers

 

[Skeeter]

I havent lost any file as such. They are all there, Windows picks up the drive (which actually has 2 partitions, but only 1 was really used) and lists all the files. I can open some fine too. But whenever I try to copy the files off onto my PC I get CRC errors and the copying stops. I need to be able to get theses files off or clone the disk or something?