Fixing a Corrupted laptop's hard-drive?

[Shajmil]

Hey everyone, Tom's hardware is a really welcoming place, but that's not the subject.

Two days ago, I was copying some movies into my friends flash-drive and then suddenly my whole laptop started to lag, I tried everything and ended up resetting my PC.

I tried to continue copying buy it was just too slow, so my friend said''EFF it. We'll do it some other time''.

The day after, I wasn't able to access my favorite music folder. It said something about an I/O error. But then I went back to my library and searched for '.mp3' and all the music in my favorites folder appeared, I tried copying them to my desktop and it did copy, but after half way there, my whole PC froze.

And today, my PC won't run
There is a 'bsod' appearing after the loading screen, it says that it can't access something. I tried formattimg it (I'm using window 8) using a flash drive because my DVD drive isn't working.. I thought I finally had it, but even the windows 8 installation screen was frozen. It just won't go any further.

I thought the windows 8 installation was supposed to be completely independent.

I get this terrible feeling that my hardrive is corrupt , and if it was , it's logically software corruption.

So I'm here looking for hope.

Can we retrieve all the files from a corrupted laptop hard drive? there are tons of my hardwork in there. The books I wrote, the music I made..etc , so please help me.

Thank you.

 

[SortNVF]

If its very important, look to a hard drive recovery specialist.

As far as i can tell some sectors of the physical drive must have gone bad and im guessing its the reader heads or actual HDD plates thats the issue.
I sure hope you just tried to reinstall windows, not actually format the HDD, or that recovery just went a step up in price.

Also make a note of taking backups in the future.

 

[Takasis007]

Before the expensive recovery, try the inexpensive one. Pick up a HDD dock, pull the Laptop HDD and plug it into the dock. Before you go poking around on that drive, scan it for viruses first. Then move what you need to another drive. If it is a physical error, things get more complicated. I have a pile of HDD's laying around just for such an emergency. With the dock you can copy critical files to your desktop computer. Wipe the laptop drive, re-install your OS and move the files back after the basics are installed. Hopefully your friends data stick did not have STDs (Systematically Transmitted Diseases - it is my response i will call it what i want aka a virus). Good practice, before you ever stick someones tech into your tech SCAN it. You may be diligent about your usage, you can not guarantee they are as well.

Something like this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817707175&cm_re=hard_drive_docking_station-_-17-707-175-_-Product