How to recover damaged files

This is the scenario that i have at the moment:
my hd failed; almost dead...rush in the emergency room using stellar software to recover data! but the app is lost somewhere, so get diskwarrior and try to rebuild the disk....good! now move all these video files (QT and AVI, some m4p).
After throwing away the disk (that died after the stress of the data recovery), i checked the files....and many of them do not play!
Now, is there any way on earth to save these clips or recover part of them? is sad to see that 3/4 of my past 14 years are basically gone....
Tried to play with itunes, QT, VLC player and DIvx Player with no luck; same when i tried with WMP on an XP machine running on parallels (tried also a windows software that was claiming to be able to repair the files,,,no success)
I know that this issue is more generic than QT itself, but i hope that the experts that visit this forum could have some hints, before deleting 123 GB of movies that i cannot see//open/modify.
Thanks!

Rick,
Sadly my vids does not even play from the start... and i do not have the will to learn QT format and code by myself an utility that can get partial stream from the damaged movies; same goes for WMV files and AVI files (and also because i think that i am not the only one to have a problem like that, so other people smarter than me would either make a software or find a way to fix the clips)
Your idea is not correct...14 years of video didn't survived for so long without backup (and countless drives lost during the way, when tapes were the uber format, and dvd-r were in our wildest dream, since too expensive); now we need to analyze why this happened to me:
i had a drive and a mirror of the drive...sadly when the blocks went bad, there was no check on the data blocks, but only on the data format and integrity on the size (both things that were OK), so my mirrored drive got happily the data that came from the mirrored drive...getting the corrupted data too.
So i have on one drive the original material with bad blocks, and on my mirrored drive (with good block but corrupted data files) i have all my files, but few of them plays, since the data is corrupted.
Software on the market (stellar and others) either on pc or mac, were not able to recover the data, so after that the original drive died i decided that maybe was worth the try to extract as much as possible from the corrupted files.....
This is my story I am not victim of my own stupidity to not back up, but a victim of a faulty software (veritas) that sadly do not recognize that something is wrong if the datablocks starts to fail
Maybe should i have a backup of the backup? who knows....

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