[hezagenius]

Last week, my HD went bonkers and now I can't access it. I have a lot of music on this drive (~650GB) that has taken a long time to amass. I have been archiving my CDs as WMA Lossless files and then converting some to mp3 to put on my ****. The drive letter shows up in the My Computer window but when I try to access it, I get an error about something called an inpage operation. I've looked this up and the details zfd pretty vague.

I bought and downloaded Recover My Files. I selected the Full Recovery option (option #2) and selected all the file types I could think of that are on my HD (images, documents, spreadsheets, mp3s, wav, wma) and started it last night around 10pm. I had to use the Physical Drive mode and selected "Go to end of file" to help speed things up. When I last looked at the computer before bed around 12am, it had found 374 mp3 files and its progress was about 6,000,000 out of 1,953,000,000. I checked this morning around 8am and its progress was about 27,000,000 and it had still only found 374 mp3 files. It was still going. I know for a fact that there are at least 20,000 mp3 files. Is it normal to run this slow? At this rate, it is going to take weeks and weeks to fully scan the drive. I turned off the screensaver in case that would take up memory. My CPU is 3GB.

Any thoughts?
Should I restart the scan?
Should I change the parameters of the scan?
Should I try different software?