kp616

Hi everyone,

I am new to the this message board and am looking for solutions or advice in recovering data from a crashed laptop's hard drive. Here is where I'm at currently:

My laptop will no longer boot (as it has done before) and last time I encountered this problem, I went to BestBuy and bought the RocketFish hard drive enclosure kit. I was able to remove the HD from my laptop and use the enclosure kit to successfully recover all files and put them on a different computer. Then I put the HD back into the crashed laptop and reformatted the drive, problem solved.

This time around, I am going through the same process but when I try to access the drive I am unable to do so. I have the RocketFish enclosure with the crashed laptop's HD in the enclosure and connected to another laptop to extract the files I wish to recover before I reformat the HD. I try to access the files by going to "My Computer" and then clicking on "Local Disk (E". I then try to click on "My Documents" and get the following message: E:\My Documents is not accessible. Incorrect function".

Anyone encounter the same trouble or issue? Any advice on how to access these files I need to recover? Also, is there anyway I can use the Windows recovery disks to fix or reformat this drive without erasing all the files? Thank you for your help!

Cromewell

Try looking at the drive with recovery software. http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue_pc.php something like this may work but it can get pricey.

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kp616

I will try to see if a demo version helps me to confirm if the files are even accesible before I purchase the software. Any other advice or suggestions? Thank you.

hondro

if you have the installation disk you could do a repair installation, do that by going to the part where it shows ur hd/partition info and press the repair button ("R" i think)

kp616

Will I lose data by performing a repair install?

kp616

I used the following site to help me through the process, http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm. Just as mentioned in the help guide, the repair ("R") was not an option during Windows setup. I exited the setup and the computer automatically tried to reboot (which of course didn't work). The screen remained blank like every attempt before and then the following message appeard on the screen:

"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \windows\AppPatch\drvmain.sdb"

Any advice? Thanks!

martin345

I have recentaly lost my data from my hard drive due to the corruption of hard drive.My colleague suggest me to use Stellar Phoenix Windows data recovery software.This hard drive recovery software helps me to recover my lost data.

Euklid

What is the company/model of your harddrive?

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