Greetings Guido:> Its kind of a nightmare.
Sorry to hear about the HD failure. FWIW, I've had very good luck with a HD utility called Spinrite (http://www.grc.com). As soon as a drive starts making any weird sounds, I run Spinrite and it can usually recover the data and either fix or mark the sector bad and move the data elsewhere. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for NTFS.
Your experience has reminded me to backup my data!
Good luck and we hope to have you back online again soon!
Ben
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