Data Recovery

I have a older computer I was useing for file storage. It a upgraded Gateway - 850 mhz / windows 2000 / 100 gig hd / 3 x 128 ram / pci ata 133 card for the 100gig / dvd rom / 52 cd rom / 24x burner. Well I leave it running just about 24/7/365. Last week I noticed a slow down and choppyness of the system so I restarted/scandisk/defrag. None of this helped so I moved 90% of my files to a external drive in prep for a format reinstall and os upg. Well between work and other stuff I hadnt finished the last couple backups of files mainly my outlook.pst file with about 10 years of emails 300mb file and some trillian IM logs. I got home from work yesterday and saw the lovely bsod with unable to find boot device. doh. So I restarted and the computer locked up durning the windows 2000 boot screen. So I got the win 2k cd and tried a repair with no luck it locked up too. Figured ok lets try to upg now then and tried the xp cd and got a message that it was unable to be installed on that harddrive cause of courrption. Ok still not a big deal changed the settings to a slave drive and installed it on my other xp gameing computer and everthing booted fine. I started looking for the couple files I needed and got one or two then I went for the outlook.pst file found it in the D:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst it showed the file size so I went to copy it to my c drive and I get Data Error: Cyclic Redundacy Check. . Is there anyway to recover this file or even parts of the file. I have looked into some data recovery software and im getting bad sector warnings. Thanks for any help.

Try this: http://www.runtime.org/

It's called Get Data Back and can be found under the THQ Tools section. Let us know whether or not this works.

You can find out if you are going to be able to get your data back, but it will cost you $80 for it to copy over.

I was actually running GetDataBack for NTFS when I wrote this but it was coming up with so many errors I wasnt sure how well it would work. Well all I can say is thats one sweet program. I was able to get back about 95% of what I needed off the drive. Well worth it. Took about 24 hours from start to recovery compleation for the 100gig drive. Now for some trap shooting with the platters lol.

Yeah it saved my butt a time or two, well worth the money before you think about getting a slow platter scan.