best HD recovery software?

[panther309]

i'm using an external enclosure to house a 160GB ATA HD. i can turn it on an access some files but for the most part when i try to open a file or folder my computer hangs (until i shut the HD off) or says the information is corrupt.

which brings me to the question what recovery program is the best? or is there a better way to not lose everything? thanks.

 

[midnightrat]

Hopefully this will help you

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I tried going the knoppix way but it seems that it can't write to ntfs. I'm trying another route, but not having much luck

 

[John]

http://www.runtime.org
http://www.r-studio.com
http://www.grc.com/sroverview.htm

 

[KingofFah]

Once I found GDB and GDBNT (runtime link John posted), I never went looking for anything else.