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If that doesn't work - let me know, I think I have a decent data recovery disc that you can boot from a floppy.
I had a SATA 160GB disc that died on me and windows would not recognise it unless I formatted it.
Using this program, I was able to recover all my files.
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I had the same problem with my 200Gb Sata drive, kept asking me to format for it to work.
My fix was to buy another 250Gb hard drive and use my mates program, File Scavenger 2.1, and it was able to recover all my files to my new drive and then I could format the 200Gb drive.
Highly recommend File Scavenger, PM me if needed.