Good morning all.
I have a not so new Dell laptop (not top of range and not sure of series - can check at home later), and the Hard drive packed up (i5 processor, 4 GB RAM, Win7 64 & 500GB HD).
It crashed and went into start up loops and no boot up even in Safe Mode - continually crashed. The Recovery mode ran for a while and then crashed.
I took the hard drive out and placed it in freezer, and booted for a while with UBUNTU from flash disk and it was stable without crashing - besides getting hot (which it always did).
I want to get the data back. I've used Recuva succesfully before .
I didn't need Recuva as I hooked drive to external connector and retrieved all the data off the secondary partition on which I stored data and music etc...
The primary partition is shown as inaccessible via this method - shows as 0 bytes and I cant edit permissions or change anything.
I tried using a Win7 Ultimate DVD to boot from and it the install process recognises the Win7 installation on the primary partition and recovery option is offered but does not complete due to it being a different version of Win 7.
The Dell DVD that came with the Laptop would probably do a complete format.
I could boot from Linux Flash drive and try to acess drive now that it is installed again, and then copy to another flash/external drive.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I have a not so new Dell laptop (not top of range and not sure of series - can check at home later), and the Hard drive packed up (i5 processor, 4 GB RAM, Win7 64 & 500GB HD).
It crashed and went into start up loops and no boot up even in Safe Mode - continually crashed. The Recovery mode ran for a while and then crashed.
I took the hard drive out and placed it in freezer, and booted for a while with UBUNTU from flash disk and it was stable without crashing - besides getting hot (which it always did).
I want to get the data back. I've used Recuva succesfully before .
I didn't need Recuva as I hooked drive to external connector and retrieved all the data off the secondary partition on which I stored data and music etc...
The primary partition is shown as inaccessible via this method - shows as 0 bytes and I cant edit permissions or change anything.
I tried using a Win7 Ultimate DVD to boot from and it the install process recognises the Win7 installation on the primary partition and recovery option is offered but does not complete due to it being a different version of Win 7.
The Dell DVD that came with the Laptop would probably do a complete format.
I could boot from Linux Flash drive and try to acess drive now that it is installed again, and then copy to another flash/external drive.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
