Had a similar problem.  I ended up getting a new drive, loading Linux, then
mounting the bad drive ( mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/baddrive) and copying
the data in chunks using
the dd command.  If the files you are looking for are text based you can
then search through the files and grep out the lines you need.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Jeremy Fowler
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 4:52 PM
To: Kclug
Subject: Hard Drive Retrieval Software (OT)

Anyone know of any good software that can retrieve data from a failed drive?
Preferably Open Source and can read FAT32 Partitions as well as ext2?