recover files in corrupted hard disk

The best option is to try the hdd as secondary on another computer and see if you can get beyond the boot sector on the drive to recover your data. Remember to change the jumper on the drive...

In addition to the first answer, check your CMOS settings. Use a boot floppy to start the PC. Check the CMOS and make sure your drive specification is correct. If your have an autodetect setting, try using that. If it still doen't work, see if thereare other drive settings your could chose from. You may see a selection of 1,2, or 3. Try them all if you have too.
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There is alot of ways to get your info from your old harddrive. If the old drive is not bad you can add it to a different computer and copy the info to it. You can boot to a dos disk and copy to another drive, or you can add a external drive and copy everything you need and blow away the old drive.

You usually get the error if you are trying to access a drive that is not partitioned.But because the HDD is corrupt, things like twinnig it with another drive or on different PC might not work.Try using a data recovery tool e.g a program called Partition Manager , pr.exe ,download from www.partition-manager.com which accesses your master boot record and recovers all your data even from a drive whose parttion was deleted !Hope it will help.

If you have a bootable disk with FDISK.EXE on it, try "fdisk /mbr" It could be that your mbr does not have the starting track/sector correctly identified. fdisk can correct that.

This command will not make anything worse, you will just be left in the same position you are now.

First, of course, install hd drive as slave of a running computer.
NEVER write anything on the drive, neither software nor datas.

Then, try this software : easy recovery, from OnTrack.
I've often seen miracles with this...

Else : try Lost and found, from ?Powerquest. Not so good, but when anything else failed.

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