HDD Recovery, I Need Help

[MorphiousVylok]

Hi, I'm currently working on recovering some files from my 250gb Maxtor HardDrive and was wondering what program is best for a drive with horribly bad sectors. I had a few problems with my big drives in the past with losing information due to the 140gb barrier; but this time i'm not sure how the problem started. One day I was on my computer and it just froze; I restarted and then it said "A Disk Read Error Occurred, Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart" So it won't boot up. So I put a new hard drive in so that I could read the Maxtor and try to recover files. There is a problem though... In previous situations with my drives not booting up, the files were usually still whole files and I could recover nearly all of them. But this time they are broken files and nearly non of the music files are what they used to be; Almost as if chkdisk got a hold of them and orphaned them. But it never went to chkdisk. So I really need to know what program would be best to repair bad sectors/or something that would hopefully repair my files. Right now I'm using File Scavenger version 2.1; and it finds nearly everything, but when I "recover" them... they are heavily damaged, and not alot of files actually work. Now... I am just using Exhaustive Search; I did try defunct volume search once but I didn't set any advanced options because I don't really know what all that is. If some of you could please help me out I would highly appreciate it. Thanks!