I had first tried making an image of the ntfs partition using the gnu version of ddrescue. The drive is an 80GB ide laptop hard drive. The problem is when ddrescue is running it does not find any errors until it gets to 8GB and then it finds around 50 errors. I have never let it keep going because I do not know if it is going to get finshed or just find a lot more errors.

When I had ran test disk on the physical drive it had said that the boot sector is ok but the backup boot sector is bad. But when I go to analyze the drive it finds the ntfs partition but when I go to press p to view the files no data shows up at all. I also looked at trying to rebuild the mft but it says that both the mft and the mft mirror are bad also.

Then I had tried running photorec to recover the documents but on the documents it found nothing would open and the file sizes were to small. Also on mp3 files it found they were to small and they would not play either.