bad news! ran seagate disk tools in dos mode with a bootable cd and only the bad hdd attached! more than 200 errors on the drive!! i'll have to send the drive for rma now!

only prob is how to get the data off it? is putting the drive in an external hdd sata enclosure good so that i can boot into windows normally and then try to get the data off it? seems like this whole month is ruined now!!