When I try to access a folder in one of my hard drives, I get an error message saying the drive is not formatted. The data must be corrupted. I have tried about 10 different data recovery tools, the free ones are useless, they just detect deleted data. The ones that detect the corrupted files cost over £100 to register the product in order to recover the data. I have tried deleting the folder in order to recover it again with one of the free ones, but i can't delete it. Does anyone know of a decent tool I can use to recover the data?

mate, yeah most recovery stuff i tried off the net was pretty rubbish. i was hoping to find an application that saw my data, then i'd try and download a cracked version of it with one of the file sharing programs. if you've found an application that sees your corrupt data, maybe you could do this?
goodluck with sortin' your problem out.
laters.