Originally Posted by BigMouthBillyBass
I was going to buy a tape drive to back mine up, then i realised i'd need an ultrium LTO3 400/800 and then realised i didnt have £1200 lying around
Get Ontrack recovery off bittorrent, its what i use at work

works a treat when your allocation table has gone out the window
IBM/Hitachi disk by any chance?
Went off IBM drives ages ago...just around the time they were offloaded to Hitachi...