[HelmetHead]

Depends on what is wrong with the drive....i've had NTFS failures...used NTFS recovery to get back the data....if the drive is failing..i've heard of freezing it overnight to get the data off (my buddy tried it..and got about 50% of his data)

From my understanding of the data recovery guys...they open up the drive and first they try to replace the circuit boards to see if they can get the data back..if that fails, they remove the platters in a clean room and put them in other drive frames....very costly from my limited exposure to these services.

Good luck!