Damaged Hard Disk

I have a damaged hard -disk from an old machine with lots of important data on.

Can anyone recommend any good recovery tools I could use.

Thanks in advance!

Here is a good Tool
(http://www.stellarinfo.com/download.htm)
It should help you with what you need to do. Make sure you read the instructions...

When you say damaged ,how bad, does you computer still reconise it ,if you boot computer with windows bootdisk can you type Dir c:\ at the prompt and see files on drive ,If so you could set the drive to slave and add a new master drive to the computer and copy the data from the damaged disk to the new disk or add it to another computer as the slave drive and copy the data to the master drive through windows explorer.

If it is damaged to the point where is it unrecoverible by you thin you can take the quite expencive process and there are certin companys that specialize in data recovery.

one company that I know of is http://www.drivesavers.com I have never used them but just read though some of their recovery stories.... they are amazing, although from what Ive head it will cot you a butt-load of money....

here's a shortcut to your problem. Most likely your hard disk has several bad sectors so it keeps giving you blue screens and probably won't let the OS finish loading.

You can place the hard disk in another computer as a slave and back-up your data.