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help required for HDD partition recovered

October 15th, 2013, 13:01

hi
i m shriniwas,
i have Toshiba HDD of HP Probook 4430s. some days before my laptop got stuck when booting windows xp. when i trying to format drive c: my remaining partition also got deleted. after that i check the bios setting, in that the "Hard drive protect" option was enabled. but hence there is no passward was set in the bios. i tried to repair the partition with various data recovery software but nothing happens. i also trying to solved the problem with bootable "MHDD 4.6", it shows the "drive is not ready". when i use the same drive as external drive via usb connector it works fine but the HDD shows clear (no dat/blank).

i m very apprisheat if some one solve the problem.

thank u

Re: help required for HDD partition recovered

October 24th, 2013, 12:01

You need to scan the disk whit a data recovery software like GetData or Power data recovery. The partition should be recovered if you didn't over wright the disk.

Good Luck

Re: help required for HDD partition recovered

October 24th, 2013, 22:23

I m already tried with getdata back and power recovery but the process get stuck at serton sector and do not processed further.

Re: help required for HDD partition recovered

October 25th, 2013, 0:52

You should clone the drive first, and then work with the clone.
Use Media Tools Pro or similar program.

Re: help required for HDD partition recovered

October 25th, 2013, 2:52

mr_spokk wrote:You should clone the drive first, and then work with the clone.
Use Media Tools Pro or similar program.


Agree, or dd_rescue. It's free! :-)

Re: help required for HDD partition recovered

October 26th, 2013, 17:59

ISTM that the drive has a physical problem.
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