- Jul 4, 2010
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Hey guys,
So a couple of days my laptop hard drive failed because a textbook fell from my table and onto the laptop which was on the floor (As I got up to go to the kitchen I was holding my textbook and did not securely place it on the table which made it fall easily 🙁 ). First thing I did was unplug the laptop and removed the hard drive after opening up the laptop. I took the hard drive and connected it to a sata cable and a power connector from my psu and hoped that it could be read on my PC. Weird thing is, when I did this, the hard drive was recognized in the BIOs, but not in windows. I restarted my PC, but now it wasn't recognized in the BIOs anymore. Although what did happen was that during the "starting windows" boot, the CHKDSK automatically came up with a countdown. I did unfortunately let it run without knowing that it can really take a long time to complete. I restarted my PC when the CHKDSK stopped progressing @ correcting error......in file 3759. I left it like that for 2 hours before restarting my PC during the CHKDSK. So I hooked it up to an enclosure, it did however show up in windows' disk management, but I couldn't assign it a drive letter and it was showing "offline" and "not initialized" which states that it needs to be formatted so I wasn't going to do that just yet. I then tried using Ubuntu Live CD and no luck. I'm down to my last option (I think), which is to take it to a data recovery professional to see if they can recover anything from it. I have a lot of important files in the hard drive, especially a semester's worth of assignments and other documents as well.
So what do you guys think? Keep in mind that I am a college student, so my pockets aren't deep when it comes to $ and I understand that these data recovery services are very expensive.
Info on hard drive:
Western Digital 250gb WD2500BEKT.
Thanks Guys!
So a couple of days my laptop hard drive failed because a textbook fell from my table and onto the laptop which was on the floor (As I got up to go to the kitchen I was holding my textbook and did not securely place it on the table which made it fall easily 🙁 ). First thing I did was unplug the laptop and removed the hard drive after opening up the laptop. I took the hard drive and connected it to a sata cable and a power connector from my psu and hoped that it could be read on my PC. Weird thing is, when I did this, the hard drive was recognized in the BIOs, but not in windows. I restarted my PC, but now it wasn't recognized in the BIOs anymore. Although what did happen was that during the "starting windows" boot, the CHKDSK automatically came up with a countdown. I did unfortunately let it run without knowing that it can really take a long time to complete. I restarted my PC when the CHKDSK stopped progressing @ correcting error......in file 3759. I left it like that for 2 hours before restarting my PC during the CHKDSK. So I hooked it up to an enclosure, it did however show up in windows' disk management, but I couldn't assign it a drive letter and it was showing "offline" and "not initialized" which states that it needs to be formatted so I wasn't going to do that just yet. I then tried using Ubuntu Live CD and no luck. I'm down to my last option (I think), which is to take it to a data recovery professional to see if they can recover anything from it. I have a lot of important files in the hard drive, especially a semester's worth of assignments and other documents as well.
So what do you guys think? Keep in mind that I am a college student, so my pockets aren't deep when it comes to $ and I understand that these data recovery services are very expensive.
Info on hard drive:
Western Digital 250gb WD2500BEKT.
Thanks Guys!
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