Hello, about a month ago I tried to access my Hitachi hard drive but windows wouldn't let me without formatting it. I'm guessing there is some bad sectors in it, and there are some important files that I would like to recover. I heard of a program that accesses corrupted hard drives, but it costs too much. I also heard that Kali-Linux can also access corrupted hard drives, so I installed Kali-Linux. I'm not really sure how to get started on this task though. I'm running Kali-Linux (version 1.0.5 x64 bit) as a VM in Virtual Box. Could this job be performed via a virtual machine, or is a live boot/install needed? Thanks in advance.