I've had great success with testdisk in the past restoring or repairing data. Only time it failed is when my hard-drive experienced the clock of death and ur really does not completely spin-up so have that drive in the hopes I find a way to resolve the click of death in the future...
Thanks, testdisk couldn't help me, but I am going to try again... Right now I trying to take an image from the disk with r-studio, but getting constantly Read disk Data errors...