[cmaz]

This was posted in the Reggae_Lossless_Traders group just today. i can't vouch for the program other than that this guy was successful. Don't know if it will work in your specific instance, but it might be worth a look.

100% (of the 167 Gigs) Recovered! I wanted to pass this little note
along in case anyone in the group ever experiences the sort of
corruption that I experienced. Here's what I did:

I hooked up my drive to my computer running Fedora Core 4 Linux by
Redhat, and attempted to mount the NTFS drive so I could access it
through Linux. I followed the easy-to-follow instructions located
here: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/instructions.html. By
following the "Which RPM" part of the instructions, I was able to
figure out which RPM to download. Then, I continued on through the
"Install" part of the instructions. BUT, that didn't work. However,
from the error messages I received in syslog (type 'dmesg | tail' to
see the most recent syslog messages) I was able to determine that the
problem with the drive was that the boot sector and partition table
were corrupt.

So...I moved on to plan B. Which, in fact...I didn't really have a
plan B (actually...trying to mount it in Linux was plan B) so I went
straight to Google. After about 30 minutes searching on Google...I
came across a forum post after doing a search for "How to repair a
primary boot sector on an ntfs drive that has been corrupted." In the
forum post chain, two different people mentioned a piece of software
called 'getdataback' by runtime software. At first, I thought it was
some kind of advertisement that was posted by someone that had a
vested interest in runtime software, the company. But, I had nothing
to lose, so I checked it out at http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm.

I downloaded the trial for 'GetDataBack for NTFS v2.31' and gave it a
run. It's probably a good thing to mention that I did this on Windows
XP SP1a, and I made sure to disconnect all of my other hard drives
except for the OS drive and the corrupt drive. That way, it was
easier to determine which one I needed to run the 'GetDataBack for
NTFS' scan on. It only took a little over an hour to scan (sector by
sector) the entire 250 Gig capacity corrupt drive. After the scan
was complete I clicked the 'Next' button and was suprised to find my
entire folder structure had been reconstructed by 'GetDataBack for
NTFS'. The catch was that I had to purchase the software for $79 in
order to be able to save all the data off onto another drive. I
figured that was WAY better than paying a data recovery company
anywhere from $500 to $1500 to recover my data (probably by using the
same method and software I was using). So, I bought it and was able
to enter the registration code without having to rescan the drive. In
fact, 'GetDataBack for NTFS' has an option to Save what's called a
'Recovery Scan'. So, I did actually save my scan and was able to
close out the program and then start it back up and continue from Step
5 (which is the Recovery step). That's quite a nice feature.

So, from there...I attached an external 250 Gig drive and then right
clicked on the Main folder named '[NTFS]' and selected 'Copy...' and
then navigated to the root of the external drive and viola. I went to
sleep at about 2:30 and then woke up at about 5:30 or 6:00 and it was
already finished recovering all 167 Gigs of data. I was even able to
resume the torrents that had been downloading at the time of
corruption.

Damn! I am thoroughly impressed with GetDataBack for NTFS v2.31! In
fact, I downloaded about 4 other pieces of software by Runtime
Software. I haven't tried them out yet, but I definitely will soon.

I hope this email helps the next person that unfortunately finds
himself/herself in this position.

Cheers,
Dave