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.
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.