maphioso

Hey guys - i have a Toshiba Screen Play Pro 750 Gb external/stand alone HDD- on a Windows XP system. The problem I'm having with it is:

- I was using it, moving stuff from one HDD to another but when i tried to go into a specific directory it just gave me the error message "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable"
- after retrying a couple of times, i tried resetting the system and after it came on (windows did a pre start up screen check of the disk it found some errors and corrected them) but now when i go in My Computer and i try to access it it gives me the same message "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable"
- when i turn it on or off Windows detects it and it appears in My Computer, I have the Safely Remove Hardware thing and everything
- I tried using a bunch of Data recovery programs but nothing worked at first, then i came upon this forum - i tried Test Disk - following the steps described by eneles but still no result - after that i tried Photorec and it does seem to be able to recover my files..but as the HDD was almost full - i first have to buy a new one so i can recover the data on it.
- also last night i tried using Data Doctor Recovery NTFS using Advanced settings (because the normal scan didn't find anything) and after a long night of scanning it found most of my stuff (in kind of a random order and with some file names changed)
- the question i wanted to ask is how will i be able to differentiate renamed archives that have all been placed together - or will they still work?
- and as I don't yet have the money to buy a new one I am also very opened to new suggestions to try

Thanks alot

* oh i forgot to mention that if I plug it into my TV as a stand alone - all the software works ok - but it just says no files found