> Cutting the long story short, I retrieved his data in 10 minutes and then > used Partition Magic (I think) to lock out the bad sectors, with > a generous > amount of 'padding' on either side of the sketchy area.
Oh, and this meant that the HD ended up in two partitions of about 500 meg, as the garked area was in the middle of the drive. There probably was a better way than this, but I'm an amateur.
