hard disk corrupted

an officemate here send us her PC running a NMIS server. days before, the server isn't connected in the internet. the problems starts when the PC was conected to the internet days ago. she said it was used like, only two hours on th einternet. after that the problem occurs. it was brought here with disk boot failure error (no floppy disk on the floppy disk). then we check it on the other PC if the drive can be read as slave. but did not.

is it possible that the PC was infected with virus?
the disk can be detected on BIOS. but it cant be seen on the list of drives in windows.
any programs to recover the failures of the disk?

thank you.

Can you see it in the disk management mmc?

what is an MMC? sorry dude.
in the BIOS? yes.

MMC is Microsoft Management Console. You can get to disk management mmc by right clicking My Computer and going to manage. Disk management should be in the list on the left.

is there any software that can recover those hard disks that has been corrupted? the my hard disk is a Seagate ST340015A.

Have a look here for some diagnositic tools designed for your particular hard drive.

http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

Oh Most Honorable Ones,

Please forgive me for letting these words slip past my tongue:

Click on this: SpinRite

:D

~cheers~

Edit: To partially redeem myself - you should be able to use a Linux Live CD to copy them to another drive. There are many here's a couple: Knoppix, WHAX (was whoppix)

the links was useful. thank you so much.