Try a hardware solution first. This is pretty cheap ($50 or less)... There exist these little gizmos that supply power and an interface (IDE, SATA, perhaps even floppy) to a drive. It then plugs into the USB port of a live PC.
If the drive is simply unbootable, but the data are still there, it can be copied elsewhere. -- richard "James Kerr" <[email protected]> wrote on 09/25/2009 10:01:41 AM: > So I have my sisters PC here and the partition cannot be viewed and > of course the PC will not boot, just DSODs right away. It looks like > I will need some software to be able to recover whatever files I can > from this drive. I used a software in the past and for the life of > me I can't remember what it was called but it was free and it > worked. Any recommondations? > > James > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
