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 Post subject: PC fell on side, Hard Drive OS is gone
PostPosted: June 15th, 2011, 13:41 
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My PC fell over onto its side the other day while I was downloading some stuff. Now Windows 7 doesn't load at all and trying to repair shows no OS anymore. When I slave the drive I can't see any partitions or data. But when I run "Recover My Files", It detects all my data with names intact. Is there some way to repair the partition or OS? Or is the hard drive actually damaged?


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 Post subject: Re: PC fell on side, Hard Drive OS is gone
PostPosted: June 15th, 2011, 13:52 
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Need more advanced, data recovery like, diagnosis. Meaning, must test the read-write components to see if they do work as they should.
Have experience or any tools?

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 Post subject: Re: PC fell on side, Hard Drive OS is gone
PostPosted: June 15th, 2011, 14:06 
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The drive likely now has bad sectors and possibly failing heads. If your data is important to you, I suggest that you stop powering the drive on and have it assessed by a professional data recovery lab. Your drive may have limited life left and you don't want to lose your data while it is still recoverable.

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 Post subject: Re: PC fell on side, Hard Drive OS is gone
PostPosted: June 15th, 2011, 14:58 
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In My Computer the drive letter is there but nothing else, and in Computer Management the drive is: RAW (file system), Healthy (Active, Primary Partition). That would suggest that only the bootable part of the hard drive is messed up.

I do have some experience with doomed hard drives. Which tools would you suggest?


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 Post subject: Re: PC fell on side, Hard Drive OS is gone
PostPosted: June 16th, 2011, 1:33 
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Well, the drive officially died. Made some bad clunking sounds and one of the chips burned. I got all the data that I needed I think from my recovery program.

Thanks for the help though


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