Bad sectors on seagate 160, which software?

[xenion]

Here's the deal:
xp pro on 80 GB master, seagate 160 as slave for media files.
I had abused the drive, meaning it had been very full for some months not having enough free space to defrag. Recently my whole system would freeze up when trying to access a particular portion of the drive, forcing me to reset. XP's chkdsk would also hang after reporting 2 bad sectors. After rebooting a couple times, trying to explore the drive showed no file tree.

I ran partiton magic off a CD from ram drive which was able to complete the chkdsk, showing several CRC errors, and a relatively small range of bad sectors.

Now I have connected an empty SATA 160 GB drive in hopes of restoring my data. While I was at it, I went ahead and reformatted my master drive and reinstalled XP. After the reinstall of XP, I am able to view my file tree on the corrupt drive inside of windows again. Everything seems to be in tact except for one folder, which windows now reads as empty. I knew the bad sectors were in this particular folder. Unfortunately it is my music (approximately 25 GB) which I desperately want to recover. I am not worried about reusing the drive, I just want to back up the data to the SATA drive and recover my music.

I believe only a small portion of this folder had bad sectors, so my question is:
What would be the best way to go about recovering this data. I have used Ontrack on another drive, but think there would be a better solution to this problem since the partition and most of the data is still in tact. I will be monitoring this thread tonight as I try to solve this problem. Any help would be VERY much appreciated, as I want to make some CD's as presents for the upcoming holidays.

I apologize for the long thread, I will post more info about the details of the bad sectors after i finish installing SP2.

 

[xenion]

OK, just ran error checking from PartionionMagic 7.0 again.

I recieved the following:

Error 45 CRC error in data
Error 45 CRC error in data
Error 45 CRC error in data
Error 45 CRC error in data
Error 1609 Lost clusters, Clusters 3433790 - 34342111

So, doesn't say bad sectors.....

Should I just clone the whole HDD to the SATA drive then try to do data recovery on my inaccessible data?

 

[xenion]

Ok, I used the option to "Fix" the lost clusters from partition magic. I didn't recieve the option to "fix" the CRC errors. Then I went ahead and let XP perform CHKDSK on startup. So far it has:

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File record segment 22128 is unreadable.

Now there is no sign of action, and I believe it has frozen on chkdsk. Before when i ran it, it would do the same thing except show another unreadable segment before "freezing". I put that in quotes becuase i'm not sure if its frozen or working. The HDD is making no noise and I only hear the fans running. I will leave it running for a while to verify it has frozen. Will report back later =)

 

[xenion]

Me again,

I finally restarted to abort the "frozen" chkdsk. I then booted into XP and to my pleasure, the music folder was now there! I suppose from using "fix" from partitionmagic. Before I cloned the drive to my SATA, i wanted to get the data errors taken care of. I downloaded a bootable diagnostic ISO from seagate to see what it could come up with. I ran a "File Structure Test" which resulted in: "Failed with critical Errors", and then recommends using chkdsk, *sigh*. Well I think I'm gonig to try to run chkdsk from DOS next.