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Groundbeef
02-18-2009, 12:50 PM
My lovely daughter used my laptop last night. Upon finishing her homework, she closed it, and rested it on it's edge against the wall.

It slid about 8" down to the floor. Apparently the HD was still spinning. Wouldn't load up last night.

Pulled the drive out, put the SATA drive on an external enclosure I had, and put the USB into my downstairs PC. My computer recognizes the drive as a HD, but is showing the size as "zero" 0GB.

I think the partitions are shot. Doesn't make any rattles, and seems to spin up ok upon power up.

I can't afford the services of a clean room to take apart the drive. Apart from some family pictures (backed up), and family home movies (not backed up) there isn't a whole lot. But the movies would really be nice to get back.

Any really good software that one would recommend? I don't mind paying, but I would prefer some sort of demo to make sure it's going to work. I can afford around $50-75USD.

Thanks in advance.

The drive itself is a Fujitsu 100GB. It originally was split into 2 drives. An 11 GB section for HP(the system restore data), and 89 GB for general use.

I am using a quad core intel PC with Vista Ultimate. I have enough HD space on the PC to make a total transfer of data to restore.

I know just enough PC stuff to get myself in trouble. But not enough to fix this problem.

elapsed
02-18-2009, 12:58 PM
Grab yourself a copy of Ultimate Boot CD for Windows: http://www.ubcd4win.com/

This is a free download, just burn the ISO to a bootable CD. Once you've booted off of this CD you will find a variety of recovery utilities. I used this successfully last week to recover about 80% of my friend's pictures and documents which had been destroyed by a virus.

Hope this works out for you!

cheers,
elapsed

Groundbeef
02-18-2009, 01:03 PM
Grab yourself a copy of Ultimate Boot CD for Windows: http://www.ubcd4win.com/

This is a free download, just burn the ISO to a bootable CD. Once you've booted off of this CD you will find a variety of recovery utilities. I used this successfully last week to recover about 80% of my friend's pictures and documents which had been destroyed by a virus.

Hope this works out for you!

cheers,
elapsed

Is there an .exe file I can use? I don't have any problems with my basement PC, and the drive is hooked up via USB to the PC.

elapsed
02-18-2009, 01:06 PM
No it's an ISO, but if you like you can still boot your basement PC off of this recovery CD and then work with the contents of the USB connected drive

cheers,
elapsed

Rich-n-Texas
02-18-2009, 03:15 PM
Sorry cow-pie face, can't help ya.

(snicker snicker)

Groundbeef
02-18-2009, 04:11 PM
Sorry cow-pie face, can't help ya.

(snicker snicker)

Thanks, as I wonder if I will get to watch my 3 kids birthday parties after they are gone from the house, I appreciate your humor.

nightflier
02-19-2009, 06:15 PM
Yeah, groundbeef, that's a bit of a disturbing new avatar you got there. Don't want to know what's one has to do to get a cow to make that face.

P.S. Hope the disk recovery works. UBCD is as good as it gets for OSS.