ZAR- files found but does not copy, process stops

[Chris]

Hoping someone can help. I purchased the ZAR software over the weekend and followed the tutorial steps for data recovery. When I go to copy the recovered data the process never proceeds. I put in the drive letter to copy to (same as the drive I am recovering lost data from) and then click the start copy button, it first says folder doesn't exist do you want to create? I reply yes. And then nothing seems to happen.

The drive I am recovering from and trying to copy to shows up as unformatted when I select it and asks me if if I want to format it. Help please.

Background-
I am a novice PC user with limited knowlegde. I have a Dell Demension XPS T500 series with a Pentium III, 640 Ram & 2 Hard Drives. The original 13GB IDE drive & a 2 year old 80GB IDE drive purchased from Dell. I recently upgraded to Win 2000 Pro from Win 98 SE and my second 80GB Hard Drive was not recognized post upgrade. (When I was previously using Win 98 SE and the drive was recognized.) The 2nd drive shows up in my BIOS as a removeable drive and is the slave drive. Now my 2nd drive is now getting an error saying it is unformatted. I have not saved or written anything to the disk post upgrade.

[Nickname]

Try to select another drive letter.

[Chris]

There is not enough space on my other drive. Is there another way or should I purchase an external hard drive for more storage?

[Alexey V. Gubin]

I put in the drive letter to copy to (same as the drive I am recovering lost data from)

NEVER copy the data onto the damaged drive. This does more damage to the original data. No writes to the damaged drive should be allowed. So, your options are

Go and get the external drive of sufficient size. Either buy or borrow from someone. Or install an additional internal drive, if by chance someone of your friends has a spare one.
Recover data in parts so that each part fits onto your working drive. Then, review the recovered files and burn them on DVDs. Delete files from hard disk and repeat.Remember to review the recovered files before you reformat the damaged drive to put it back for reuse. If the recovery is not perfect for some reason, you lose the chance to correct this once you reuse the damaged drive for storage.