Hard Drive Failure

I have been working on a PC where the hard drive has failed. I've
already informed the user of the very real possibility that all his
data could be lost, but I was wondering if anyone could point me in the
direction of any tools that I may be able to use to try to pull any
data at all from the disk. It looks to me that the file table has been
blown away, and most of the indexes have been lost. I have tried to
pull data by making the disk a slave and that has been unsuccessful.
So, at this point, I'm open to any suggestions or advice other than it
should've been backed up. :) Thanks in advance.

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