My external 250GB MP3 disk just totally failed on me.
I was moving data off of it as I could tell it was going to die.
Hopefully this tutorial will help
Beginners Guides: Hard Drive Data Recovery
Link to utils for partition and MFT recovery
Tools *
Documentation of how to use TESTDISK
Running TESTDISK
TestDisk Data Recovery Utility:Examples *
Neat set of online DNS/IP tools
DNS Stuff