How to recover files that have been corrupted in an XP system

Q: My computer's operating system is Windows XP, the recent hard drive has failed, do not know is the physical bad way or logical bad way, but it is certain that I have stored in the D disk under some of the files are damaged, there is no way to help me find these documents?

A: You can use specific repair tools to repair your damaged files, or you can fix them from a command-line prompt on your XP system, provided that the data remains and is not overwritten with other data. To fix the Back.txt file in your D-packing directory, for example, to do this, click start → run, enter "CMD" (without quotes) in the Run input box, and type "Recover d:back.txt" (without quotes) at the pop-up command prompt to return. The recovery process cannot be aborted and one file should be recovered at a time. If your hard disk does have a physical bad way, using this method will lose some of the data that is stored on the bad track, and you can edit or re-enter the missing information after you recover the file.