HELP! Hard Disk Failur

[SpeedGeek]

Really need some preffesional help with a problem i'm having.

I use 2 IDE Hard Drives, one is 120G, devided into 2 partitions, system and files, and one is another 40G i keep just for file sharing software.
for a few weeks now i have been having this wierd problem where after i reboot the motherboard refuses to boot from the large hard drive.
a restart or two usualy did the trick and i stupidly ignored the problem until yesterday, when it refused to boot at all.
i shutdown my pc and immmidiatly booted from my linux Knoppix cd to find that even linux now refuses to indetify the hard drive.
it says that the device exist, but does not recognize the partitions and when i try to mount it it claims that he can't recognize my file system.

ok,

i get it,

the drive is screwed..

no problem, i only had it for a few months, i'll go replace it.

but the data on it, which was about 60G worth, is very very very very very very immportant to me.

my documents, my emails, my family photos, my music, my music work,
and especially my massive porn collection,

I have to recover them.

After reinstalling windows on the smaller 40G drive, i now try to access the large screwed up drive,
only to get a very very slow boot process, and windows ignoring the drive in "my computer" but being aware of its presence
in "Device manager".

Please.

Help.

Yoav Erez.

yoe@bezeqint.net
ICQ-45830210
MSN-yoaverez69@hotmail.com


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[sjonnie]

i but the data on it, which was about 60G worth, is very very very very very very immportant to me

Which is why you have it backed up on tape / CD / another hard drive.

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[grafixmonkey]

$50 will get you a copy of R-Studio from R-Labs, which will get the data off your drive. If you have partitions for both NTFS and FAT, you might have to get the more expensive version, but the program was able to retrieve almost all the data from my 100gb WD drive that had the read heads squealing on the platter surface.

 

[SpeedGeek]

1 - i did back some of it up, but there were certain things there, which were too large to backup

2 - allready tried file recovery programs, they can't access the drive.



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