Same thing but hard drive recovery. I'm not sure it's going to be possible though. My daughter pulled my parents' laptop off the cabinet and it looks like it damaged the HDD. She said it was wroking fine for a bit but after a while it rebooted, then said drive error at post.
My usual GetDataBack can't do anything with it. It recognises the drive but just hangs while Windows is trying to make its mind up.
So, anything else I can try?
Think I might try that. It worked once years ago.
I booted the laptop from a Linux USB drive and it can mount the partition as read-only but doesn't show any contents.
Never tried it, but sounds like it's dead anyway so no harm in giving it a shot.
I'm pretty sure it did work. Had a HDD that couldn't be read in Windows, froze it and when I took it out of the freezer it worked for a little while, long enough to get some data off.
It does look like the drive is dead unfortunately. Nothing backed up from it, years of stuff on there :S Worth a shot at putting it in the freezer.
Wonderful. I can access the recovery partition fine but the rest just doesn't seem to work :(
Freezer didn't help. Same thing this morning. Maybe it wasn't in there long enough. More likely it's DEAD.
But the recovery partition still works?
dd the whole device to an image.
Seems to. I could access the files in the recovery partition from Linux. The other partition showed the size and space used but couldn't shoe any contents.
Worth a try making an image. I'll try and find a HDD large enough when I get home and see if it will work.
Data could well be in tact just the FAT is damaged (if it still works like that for NTFS).