partition improperly dismounted

I have a 40GB WD Drive that says partition improperly dismounted. I have tried gdisk, partition magic, disk copy, ghost, windows repair. Nothing recovers. I have unhidden it, hidden it, made it active. I cannot boot, even as a 2nd drive (BSOD error x0…024. Computer sees the drive as master or slave. Any other utilities available or am I screwed?
Thanks, wpcc