A free (OSS) tool to restore partitions and attempt to recover files. Highly rated on the slashdot thread.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/02/1332222
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Neat web page listing the recommended hard drives, written by a hard drive recovery service: http://www.driveservice.com/bestwrst.htm
tags: hard drive, disk, repair, fix, problems, TestDisk, crash