Storage Solutions Hard Disk crash

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talsilo

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Last week I visited my wife's office to check her comp which was infected with some virus/trojans. I installed AVG, CCleaner, Registry Cleaner, Diskeeper, etc to weed out unnecessary elements. I noticed that the defrag was going too slow, and had to abort the process. I thought may be the comp had become slower or an HDD problem. I told her to back up the data. So when I visited it again 4 days back, I installed HD Sentinel to check the HDD. It showed everything is ok, 100% fine.

But yesterday my wife called me and told me that the entire 'D' partition where the data was stored has disappeared. And when the hardware guy came today to check, even the C drive has disappeared. Also, the partitions are not visible when it is connected to another computer as a data drive.

I now feel quite bad for not following up more strictly on the backup :(

Any help? The data on 'D' that was critical was around 7gb only. How much it might cost to retrieve it? Thanks!
 
1st of all is the drive getting detected under bios ?. check it. If its not, then surely it requires data recovery procedure.

Are able to boot to windows thru that drive ?

In that case , its probably a virus/malware . If you have windows vista disk , u can boot with it , enter the repair mode where u will get command prompt.,

From there u can backup ur data to an external hdd. Though its a command prompt, it recognises usb devices too. If you are not having ext hdd , then u can download active boot disk and boot with it and write ur valuable data to a dvd

then u can format ur system and reinstall the OS

hope this helps..
 
thx for your response!

in the brief time i had with the drive, i connected it through a ext. sata-usb box. the drive is recognised, and after some time shows only the c drive, but even that is not stable, in a few seconds it disappears, and then appears on its own. i also tried to run HD Sentinel which said it is critical with 9%, and there are 8500+ bad sectors etc.

at least it is not completely dead, but it looks like working intermittently.

will be going out of town for a couple of days, so may not have time till monday morning to work on this.

Hope this might give u some idea on what is wrong with the disk. (it is 2 years old btw)
 
try accessing the hdd in vista recovery console (repair mode ) as i said where u will get the command prompt.

IMO i think this wont stress the HDD much. If you are lucky u cud access all the partitions and can to back it up to a HDD or other device. Try it ..

Because windows loads the storage drivers and wud stress the hdd much. In that case a weak hdd cud not show up the drives always.

Check it . lets c ur luck
 
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