Does anyone have any good drive of HD recovery software?

I need something that can get really low level as my IBM drive has suffered a major head crash. The drive was in 2 partitions NTFS for the main data, and FAT32 for backup files of the NTFS partition.

I've been able to get files from the FAT32 with CHKDSK and a bit of luck, but the problem is the NTFS partition. Windows XP wont CHKDSK it, just bombs out with an "Unrecognized Error" on pass 2, and just trying to get properties of the drive brings XP saying it's not formatted.

I've borrowed Norton Systemworks 2005 for Norton Disk Doctor, and this pile of crap just says, unknown file system, cant check it!

Anyone know any good software?

I've work with PC's and servers for over 15 years so I guess I should have really known better for backing up my own data.

Try "captain nemo" and "getdataback" both free about the web.. think there is two versions of GDB for each format...

Both have worked for me in the past.

I know someone who does data recovery from hard drives for fairly reasonable prices.

www.retrodata.co.uk is his website if you are interested.

Bad Copy Pro has never let me down.

Three data recovery modes. Have used on many drives these last 12 months. Always got my data back..........and sometime "others" too, which has been an "education".......