was some of the first things i tried.
put in another computer, tried to run asr, couldnt even get that far.
got into dos, tried fixboot, fixmbr.
ran chkdsk, said it was unfixable.

R-Studio v2 recognized a lot of partitions, but could only recover 1.
R-Studio v5 did better, but was a trial so i couldn't use it to recover.

I did find a free program called 'Find and mount'
worked great, but the drive really crashed shortly after.