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R-Studio NTFS works really well. Saved my ass twice and well worth the $50 if you're out of options/desperate.
Will this recover a drive that has locked itself into a failsafe mode?

Here's my situation: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...200-11-failing
A new self-bricking feature apparently resides in faulty firmware microcode which will rear its ugly head sometime at boot detection. Essentially the drive will be working as normal for a while, then - out of the blue - it'll brick itself to death. The next time you reboot your computer the drive will simply lock itself up as a failsafe and won't be detected by the BIOS. In other words, there's power, spin-up, but no detection to enable booting.
If lady gaga is really that important you could try buying the exact same drive and replacing the controller board.