Recovering data from defective HDD

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Newton124

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Brought my Notebook back from a trip.
Then the it refuses to boot up and hangs while loading windows.

Tried Safe mode without sucess.

Tried the recovery console with WinXP boot disks and found that C drive is not functioning.
Even the "dir" failed to produce the directory listing.
Tried "Chkdsk", and found "unrecoverable error"
Tried "Chkdsk /r" and it hangs at 0%.

Suspect the harddisk is damaged in the lugage of the trip.

Any one know who to recover the data in C: in such case? Those data are VERY important to me.

Thx in advance for your help^^.
 
If you really need the data back, there are places you can take/send the hard drive to have the data recovered. Im not sure how expensive it is though. You can probably find one of these places online or by calling a local computer store.
 
Try loading it onto another computer as a slave. If windows startup is the only problem, it will still be detected by the computer. I've done it, but it was only a software problem then, not a hardware damage issue.
 
Alright...
Have the HDD removed and plugged into Desktop..

It is Fujitsu MHT2040AT 40GB

Fujitsu diagnostic utility found no error..
seems the drive is physically intact..

Windows still cannot read the drive.

Used PC Inspector to recover the data..

Good news that some files are recovered.
But..for some reason, the files are all of the same size(about 1.4MB) and sometimes truncated..Why is this so?

Any means to recover more files?

Any means to fix the drive/diagnosize the file system?
 
Newton124 said:
But..for some reason, the files are all of the same size(about 1.4MB) and sometimes truncated..Why is this so?
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hmm perhaps it's because you're using some other program to extract the data instade of just copy and paste from windows? it's backing up the data in it's own format?

how are you connecting your laptop HDD to your desktop?
 
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