Missing Vfat

[monton]

I have gotten the error message: VFAT missing or damaged. Is there a second FAT in the NTFS? If so, how do I retreive it? I would like to recover data from this disk if possible.

Deskstar 80gb NTFS
ATA100 Ultra DMA 5
PIO 4 ( I think)

Any thoughts would be appreciated

Monton