A little bit of background:
For the last week, my computer has been giving me warnings that my hard drive was going to fail soon. So yesterday, I FINALLY got around to working on it. I started, copy the image of the hard drive to another hard drive I had. That way I could send the hard drive back to the manufacturer, and not experience any downtime. When I WENT to do it (using acronis, by the way) it told me it had some bad sectors (or something of the sort), and that I need to do a chkdsk. So I went into the recovery console, and ran chkdsk E: /r. It was taking forever, so I decided to go to sleep for the night. When I woke up, there were a bunch of errors telling me that I had run out of space on the hard drive for repairs (I had 200gb remaining...), and it exited with error code 50 and said that it couldn't save the log.

I tried to boot back up, and now, it won't even detect the disk half the time (the only reason I know it's detecting it is because it's giving me the "imminent failure on drive 0" message), and when it does, it won't detect it in the installation of windows I installed after the fact. I've decided on giving up on the hard drive image. I just want my files! Is there any way I can get to them?The drive is OBVIOUSLY shot. You can try slaving it to another drive.Wow... That was a fast REPLY, thanks.

*censored*... That's exactly what I didn't want to hear. Anyways, how do I slave it? You're not talking about a raid configuration, are you?

Edit: Nope. I'm an idiot, I know what slaving is. Can you do that with a laptop though? No. You attach it to a workable system and extract the data you need. Full instructions:

http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/04/23/how-to-slave-hard-drive/Slave Drive Info...Heee
Any particular recovery program you'd recommend?Are you not able to access the drive when slaving it?I'm at a loss for what to do now. The drive is now showing up on my computer, I can see all the files (for the most part), but any time I try to do anything with them, I get an error telling me the semaphore period has expired. Windows ALSO tells me it has problems interfacing with teh device.