Help with corrupted external hard drive

[MistaCooL17]

okay so i reformatted my OS back from Vista to XP because Vista is plain retarded..anyways i put like 140 gigs of music/videos onto my external seagate hard drive. While i was installing SP2, which was taking a while, i dragged some stuff from the external hard drive onto my computer, but there was an error and sp2 didn't finish installing so i restarted and tried agian and it worked. However, when i tried to access the external hard drive to get my files onto the new xp, an error message comes up and says F:\ is not accessible. "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." can anyone please help me please please please i have a lot of important stuff on that external hard drive and i have to get into it.

 

[PowerRanger]

Have you tried accessing the HDD from another computer? Sorry I can't be more helpful... :\

 

[MistaCooL17]

yes i have same error

 

[0roo0roo]

install sp2

 

[Old Hippie]

GetDataBack will do it.

 

[MistaCooL17]

is there anyway i can get back information without paying over 100$ for it? and i already installed SP2 and that works..just can't go in my external harddrive

 

[MistaCooL17]

please help?

 

[Vortex22]

Try Knoppix. Download and burn the ISO, then boot from CD. With some luck it should let you move files off the drive as long as it isn't physically damaged.