WD Internal Hard Drive (Partitioned) showing 'Directory Corrupted'

will let you know. it's downloaded, so YouTube Tut first. I have to pop out for a few hours so may be able to leave it run, will update here when I am back...

Good idea :)

Well I have let it run and it has recovered a lot of the files, which will take some sorting, but at least I have them, it stopped as my c: go less capacity i think?

Will have to clear stuff around and do it again to be sure.

Once that is done can i go about formatting the partition and starting again? I think I will buy a new HD and transfer the stuff across, without partitions!

Also, is there a way of fixing this without having to recover, as I am sure something similar happened before and we got it working again

You probably could do that yes but hey at least you were able to retrieve your stuff right? But yeh it may have something to do with your C: drive not having enough space.

There are ways to free up space and possibly even folders that contain things you don't even need or know even exist... I use software called GetFolderSize:
GetFoldersize - Free windows folder size analyzer

You merely right click on the hard drive or folder and choose "GetFolderSize" and it will tell you what folders/files are taking up the most space.

What do you mean by "having to recover?"

I run the recovery and have the folders with the files from the drive that is not recognised, but I would like not to have to sort through hundreds of files to decipher what is what,... Is there a way of just making the drive active or at least fixed?

No I doubt that you can... Sometimes HDD's just crap out and it's a terrible thing but you have to deal with it. The amount of stuff I've lost in the past because a HDD has died -.-