The system I chose for such work is R-Studio. I looked at several, tested
several, and decided on this. The particular job that warranted the purchase
was to recover stuff for a client who had a situation similar to yours. In
that case, it was a laptop, so I had to use a floppy-boot based "true image"
application to transfer the sectors intact to CD, then to my work station,
but in your case, simply attaching the old drive to your system should work.
Must be run under Windows.
http://www.data-recovery-software.net/

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP for Win9x

"Terry" tms[AT]pcpostal[DOT]com wrote in message
...
Hello all,

Looking for ideas, recommendations, etc.

I previously posted several days ago regarding my drive getting hosed
(Seagate 20gig Baracuda FAT32 on a Win98SE box). The FAT or MBR got
corrupted somehow, where a few of the directories (like c:\windows)
vanished
and 7 files with ascii 128 names (like Ç Ç Ç Ç .Ç Ç), with a total size of
the HD (the total HD capacity, not space used), are now in the root dir.
Fortunately, only a handful of directories vanished and I can recover most
datafiles and such. Funny thing is, I have reletively recent backups of
the
pertinent directories that didn't vanish, so if I had lost any of those it
wouldn't be a biggie. I have recent backups of most of the dirs that
vanished, but a couple of them I hadn't backed up in a few months (like my
directory that contains my email folders (inbox, etc.) and a dir with some
video captures). I bought a new Western Digital drive for the box and
pulled the problem Seagate.

So my question is, anyone have any ideas, recommendations, etc. for
repairing the corrupted file system and/or recovering the files/directory
structure on the funky Seagate? I would be thrilled to at least recover
my
inbox directory since there are some business emails in there since the
last
backup.

Thanks