Hard Drive Failure

[sabka]

well, one of my HDs crashed and it really SUCKS!!
The disk wasn't accessible in Windows XP, which showed it as "unformatted".

I downloaded a copy of r-studio (http://www.data-recovery-software.net) and did a disk scan. which was able to find all my files on the partition.
I'm assuming that the MFT was corrupted. Is there a way to restore a MFT and save this drive?

 

[mzkhadir]

have you tried booting up with knoppix and see if you can recover the files that way ?

 

[sabka]

I can boot into windows fine, it's a slave drive that's corrupted.
Isn't knoppix just a bootable OS?

 

[mzkhadir]

yes, its a bootable linux os from cd.