Ok, I haven't been fully practicing what I preach and haven't backup up a personal laptop in a while. It seems that my little girl was typing on it this weekend and my wife saw her and closed the lid...which should have made it hibernate. I go to open it tonight and it won't boot. I haven't noticed any bad hard drive sounds coming from it beforehand.
This is a win 7 thinkpad. I yanked the harddrive and tried to mount it to another PC to look at data. In disk manager I could see the small system drive partition and the lenovo partition...the windows partition showed as RAW instead of readable. I then booted to ubuntu live CD and tried to see the data. In DISKS it shows that partition as unknown and doesn't present anything as available...but does show the other partitions as I would expect them to show in linux. Any ideas what has happened or best course of action? Should I try cloning the drive and working off of that? Thanks for any help/insight. Bill
