Anyone know anything about data recovery? (total laptop implosion)

[BitVyper]

So my laptop's hard drive is eighteen kinds of fucked, and I just want to recover data from it before I try formatting and giving it a fresh Win-7 install. However, my attempts to repair the hard drive have left me unable to access it, or even get startup repair options to load. All I can get to run on the laptop right now, is Hirens, and mini-xp won't function off Hirens for some reason, so I'm using the Parted Magic rescue environment. If I try to access the drive from Parted Magic, it returns the "exit code 13" error, which tells me to run chkdsk /f, which I can't run because I can't get to anything windows. The full error reads:

ntfs_attr_pread_i:ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error
Failed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent or there is a hardware fault, or it's a SoftRAID/FakeRaid hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very important!

Followed by some stuff about raid setups which is irrelevant because this isn't a raid.

I have a portable hard drive reader that I've tried as well, and my other Win-7 PC just wants me to format.

Is there anything I can do from either Hirens or my Win-7 machine that might allow me to access the data on this hard drive?

Originally, windows wasn't booting, but I was able to get to the repair menu, where I found that fs.rec.sys was corrupt. None of the repair options helped (tried bootrec options in command prompt, system restore, startup repair), and I don't have a win-7 install disk, so I put in Hirens and grabbed the fs.rec.sys off my other Win-7 PC to replace the corrupt one. I had some success with this and was able to get into windows, but there were various errors that made it obvious something wasn't right, so I tried updating the drivers and running windows update in the hopes that it would fix whatever drivers were corrupt. That's why I ended up in my current state.

So yeah, if anyone has any ideas about how to get my data off this hard drive, I'd sure appreciate it.