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help me please, my laptop hdd is trash

R

rasczak

Lifer
so my laptop didnt boot into windows, safe mode or anything similar doesn't work. i bought an extrenl hdd case for my hdd, and attached it to my desktop, but everytime i try to access my files windows explorer just freezes up and i can't access anything for quite a while. (few minutes or so) i've tried getdataback but that didn't work either.

with over half of my photos on that laptop not backed up (i know i know :/ ) i'm getting pretty desperate to save them. does anyone half a godd sugeestion i can try before i go to a third party company and get wallet raped?

free or inexpensive is my first choice, anything over $100.00 and id rather go to a data recovery company.


TIA

joe
 
Sounds like the laptop drive is definately broken.

Internet Explorer is notoriously sensitive to these sort of things though. It's pretty easy to cause hang-ups and such.

If you know anything at all about Linux you can burn yourself a copy of Knoppix "live cd". This thing is a entire workable OS with full GUI and everything, but it fits and runs off of a single cdrom. No need to install anything on the harddrive to use it.

If you setup a network share on the windows XP desktop machine and then use knoppix on your laptop there is a decent chance that you'd be able to get some information off of the broken laptop drive using the command line.

If the head on the drive kissed the platter or there is some other physical damage then the command line cp command will hang on damaged files and cause headaches, but there is a pretty good chance that files on the drive that are on good sectors will still be accessable. I don't expect it to be a smooth ride.

Otherwise don't try to write to the drive or anything like that. Make sure that everything you do is read-only. The easy way to do this is to use the mount command to mount the drive and use the 'ro' option. That way if you end up having to take it to a drive rescue place it will increase likelyhood of them saving the information.

Also you could try making a 'image' of the drive with the 'dd' utility and copy it over to the windows XP machine, but that has less of a chance of working, I beleive.
 
have you tried running chkdsk on the drive ?

what I'd try is making an image of the drive and not worry about accessing it directly
also use the simplest connection and software as possible
if you can connect the drive so you can just run a boot disk to image the drive I'd think would be best if possible.
 
so i was searching thru the forums on some issues similar to mine, and found something that worked!

i took my laptop running ubuntu linux and mounted my other laptops drive onto it and viola! i was able to see all of my old data. 2000 + pix saved and backedup!!! woo hoo!!!

success!!!!!


thanks for your replies guys.
 
Congrats on recovering your photos. I bet you will do a better job of backups from this point on.
 
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