Does the drive spin up? If it does, you could try a kit to go from the
drive to USB to see if it still can read data. If so, you should be
able to recover what seems to be lost. Cost for the adapter kit is
about 30 bucks.
You could also try booting with Knoppix from a live CD to see if your
data on the drive is recoverable. Of course, you'd have to reinstall
the "dead" drive again to use Knoppix for data recovery.
Both of those tools have saved my butt a couple times.
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
-p
On 6/9/2012 10:12 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
So this morning the laptop won't boot. Narrowed the problem down to the
hard drive, mainly by removing the upgrade and putting the old tiny hard
drive back. Now everything I've not backed up in the last 6 months is
gone. Ok nothing much important except the PDML and a bunch of Firefox
bookmarks, but still a PITA. At least the WesternDigital RMA process was
relatively painless. Now to just hear from them about a shipping
question, I wonder how long that will take.
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