HDD dieing on me. help to backup!

Ok, so about a month ago my Windows somehow killed itself and destroyed imporant system files itself. It says I should CHDISK the partition. I reboot, disk boot failure. Ok, format, install windows again, seems to work. 7 days later, same thing, imporant files deleted, windows asks to CHDISK. I reboot, disk boot failure. Format, install windows, seems to work. Important files deleted on the same fucking day. Reboot, fucking disk boot failure.

Ok, now I reinstalled it again and somehow about 100GB and 2 partitions, D and E(C-20gb, D-80gb, E-20gb), freaking vanished! It was MAGIC, I tell ya! Anyway, I figured this HDD is gonna bite the dust completly very soon, so I bought a new one and tried to at least see if I can access the near broken HDD with PartitionMagic. Hell no, I can't even see if partition D and E are still there!

So, people, I ask you: is there any way I could still get access on D and E and backup some data, or is it lost forever?

i say ...... no

>>1
If you remeber how big the partitions are, you could try recovering them with parted from Knoppix or some other Linux LiveCD.

>>3
Ok, seems like a solid idea, gonna try that now. Are there any other possibilities, or this the only plausible one?

Ok, now I tried it with Knoppix. Nope, didn't work, Knoppix didn't load the broken partitions because of some conflict. Is that it? No other options? :(

Getdataback for ntfs. Awfull name. Decent program. Last resort. Give it a try.

>>5
If that didn't work, try >>6, but did you understand what I meant? The way you worded it, it sounded like you tried to mount the partitions, which wouldn't work. I meant you should start the program parted from a command line and try the "rescue" option.

(parted) help rescue
  rescue START END              rescue a lost partition near START and END

        START and END are disk locations, such as 4GB or 10%.  A prefix of =
        indicates an exact location.  Negative values count from the end of the
        disk.  For example, =-1s specifies exactly the last sector.

If this is what you actually tried, then ignore what I just said.

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