HDD bad file allocation, FAT error

[fyre]

Hello,
I have a Maxtor 20Gig that recently wont boot!
I used a win98 bootdisk and it said drive C have invalid FAT and invalid file allocation table. So it wont even assign a drive letter to the Maxtor drive. It's there anyway to recover my data?? What are some utilities that can recover HDD data? I've got 18Gigs worth of data and it'll be painfull losin' them all!!!!

Thanks!

 

[DAM]

try this on the command prompt


fdisk /mbr


then restart



dam()