Hard Disk Data Recovery

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SANJAY PAWAR

Hi there,

My laptop IBM R50 hard drive started giving problem.
Suddenly partition table is automatically deleted and my data is lost. I
tried recovering using Stellar Phonix but all efforts are gone in vain.

Pls suggest, what reliable software should I use to recover it.

Thanks in advance
Best Regard

Sanjay
 
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SANJAY PAWAR

Continuation to below query

Hard disk is detected by usb device as well as in CMOS.
 
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Richard G. Harper

Frankly, if the data is that important, there is no consumer-grade tool I'd
recommend using to recover it. I'd have a professional service recover it.
Any tool that starts writing to the disc may well doom the rest of the data
on the disc and make it unrecoverable.

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Rick Rogers

Hi,

You could try mbrwork from terabyteunlimited.com (in the freeware section)
to recover the partitions, but I would be cautious with writing to the
drive. My approach would be to slave the drive and image it, then attempt to
recover data.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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SANJAY PAWAR said:
Hi there,

My laptop IBM R50 hard drive started giving problem.
Suddenly partition table is automatically deleted and my data is lost. I
tried recovering using Stellar Phonix but all efforts are gone in vain.

Pls suggest, what reliable software should I use to recover it.


I had a MFT failure on a partition and could not access it.

The only thing that I found that helped was GetDataBack. It got all my
files back, although some directory and file names were lost due to the
drive failure. There is a free trial that will show whether it will work
for you or not.

http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

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Michal Kawecki

SANJAY PAWAR said:
Hi there,

My laptop IBM R50 hard drive started giving problem.
Suddenly partition table is automatically deleted and my data is lost. I
tried recovering using Stellar Phonix but all efforts are gone in vain.

Pls suggest, what reliable software should I use to recover it.


If your drive is physically in a good state then you can try to rebuild a
partition table using freeware program Testdisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/ .
If only one partition is missing or you get a message "the partition is not
formatted", then you can try to recover a spare copy of bootsector of that
partition, or rebuild it from scratch.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/phpwiki/index.php/examples .
 

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