Help! How to recover data from corrupted HDD?

[FulciLives]

I am also having problem with corrupted drive right now. Just like that 1 day I turn it on and found error NTLDR is missing. Unfortunately I have some bad sectors and clicking noises on this drive and so far nothing works. That is 40GB laptop drive and I have just bought a adapter on eBay, so I can put it in my desktop as a slave and see if I can use any recovery data tool.
I found this document on the net.

200ways.pdf

Clicking noises usually means the HDD is "dead" on the physical level. My problem was more of a formatting and/or partitioning problem.

That clicking noise usually means you are screwed

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[fLYtRap]

I am also having problem with corrupted drive right now. Just like that 1 day I turn it on and found error NTLDR is missing. Unfortunately I have some bad sectors and clicking noises on this drive and so far nothing works. That is 40GB laptop drive and I have just bought a adapter on eBay, so I can put it in my desktop as a slave and see if I can use any recovery data tool.
I found this document on the net.

200ways.pdf

Clicking noises usually means the HDD is "dead" on the physical level. My problem was more of a formatting and/or partitioning problem.

That clicking noise usually means you are screwed

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

Did you read this document. I've seen comments there about dead drives just like mine have been putting into freezers overnight to shrink metal and than they where able to recover the data from them on the time limit bases, until the metal parts of the drive went back to its original size. It is only about 20-30 minutes window to get things done. Some people there repeated the process several times to get whole data back. I am reserving this TRICK as a last resort

[Lucifers_Ghost]

Just to revive this thread for a quick moment ... Im curious.

This thread was geared towards recovering files on a drive that is unreadable.

Would the same advice in this thread apply to a drive that was accidentally formatted? Could the programs and tips above be used to recover any data on the drive?

Thank you kindly
LG

[TBoneit]

As long as you don't write anything to the drive then there are unformat and format recovery programs out there.

Formatting does not remove any data. It just rewrites the file allocation table.

You will have to do a search as I do not recall any specific ones right now.