I’m taking a course that requires me to use Windows and I woke up this fine mornign to find that the hard disk light was on, with even trivial tasks taking forever. I rebooted Windows (is there anything in Windows a reboot won’t fix?) and saw:
Disk Read Error
Press Ctrl Alt Del to restart
Ouch.
Going into Linux and reading off the drive was the only option, I saved as much as I could, but after every read, something further went wrong and finally I was left with this picture:
Look at all those 11 TB files, you must have a huge drive, Viren, and in 1969 too! 
Anyway, so now I have to replace this drive, which looks completely fubared.
You should try this software: http://www.runtime.org/
it’s awesome