Since you haven't explained what this is that you are working with, it's also hard to advise, because some drives are much more robust than others. In fact, on the portable external drives that have built-in USB interfaces, professionals more often than not will modify those drives to add a proper interface in order to do a better recovery. Last, do you have an adequate computer to do the work? Especially if the drive is a SATA device, you should really be using a desktop computer with a direct motherboard connection. A reasonable professional will likely only charge under $500, often as low as the high 200 to mid 300 range. Another drive to create a clone will cost you about $50-250, depending on the size of the drive. A good data recovery program is probably going to set you back $50-80. Understand that once you start adding things up, a well priced professional service won't be hard to afford. Third, do you have what you need in order to do the recovery? Do you have a bench computer? Do you have another drive upon which you can create a clone of your original, and then another drive upon which you can store the recovered data? If you don't have any of these items, you need to go to a professional.

If you are somebody who is corresponding with a Windows support chatbot, or calling manufacturer tech support because of PC issues (other than specifically to obtain warranty repair or replacement parts), you should not be trying to recover your own data, regardless of its value.

Second, you need to really determine your skill set. While you may get some data back (probably will in many cases), if the drive is actually failing, the situation will actually get worse pretty quickly. DIY attempts are likely to just make the situation worse. Is this stuff of high personal / sentimental or high business / monetary value? If it is, you need to go straight to a professional recovery option. First, determine the value of your data to you. When you are dealing with a drive that is failing or questionable, you need to do three things. As such, you need to treat it as a drive that is believed to be failing. Since you're describing it as corrupted, that tells me that you're not sure what the actual problem is. Your drive is either working, or it's broken to any number of degrees. Files can be corrupted, but drive themselves really can't be.

The biggest thing I worry about in a case like this, is that you are using the term 'corrupted', which is something that doesn't actually happen to drive.

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