help reparing mu NTFS file system

Windows XP
P4a 2.0Ghz
1 gig ddr333
120G SATA HDD (NTFS windows partition)
9800xt AGP


I was installing the Zune software so I could have connectivity with my new xbox360. During the installation the hdd was making several squeak---CLICK sound at regular intervals. During this behavior the computer was frozen. This continued for a while so I did a stupid thing. During the installation I hit the reset button. When I went to reboot the hdd was doing the same thing and it was not detected so I was sure the drive went bad. I wiggled the cable and now it is recognized and the sounds are gone. The drive has been acting normally ever since. Well now windows won’t boot. It sits at the windows xp screen with the blue bar just cycling forever. I tired safe mode and it hangs at mup.sys every time. I believe the partition has been corrupted buy the bad SATA cable. So I pop in the windows installation cd so I can boot into the recovery console well It loads fine but when I get to the screen where you press enter to continue and r for recovery, the keyboard stops responding. I believe the system is locked so I hit the reset button. I download a dos boot disk with NTFS4DOS so that I can perform a chkdsk on my hdd. well apparently there is a chkdsk version that works with NTFS however it does not work very well. I keep getting an unspecified error at the end of step 2. The next thing I try is the chkntfs program but when I put that on the boot disk it wont run with the following error “this cannot run in dos mode”. I am stuck! I don’t know what else to do. I don’t want to wipe the drive and reinstall windows. I have a program that will get all the data off but that is not what I want I want to fix this installation. If anyone has any suggestions I am very open to them. Thank you!

The fact that this is an NTFS file system on an SATA drive makes this problem all the more difficult because dos does not recognize NTFS and many repair tools are only for IDE.

 

Have you tried CHKDSK /R ?
This will fix as it scans.
Your hard disk sounds like its on borrowed time, so if you can get back into it, save what you can, with whatever tool you have, in case it goes completely.
In fact I suggest you save your data, now, then try the fixes.