Wazzzer

Anyone know any good free programs I can use to try and recover data off a fooked hard drive?

I got back from my honeymoon and the hard drive went on my main PC. I wouldn't be bothered but it had a lot of music on there and the wife's coursework

I've tried putting the drive in this PC, it scans it then tells me there are a lot of errors then won't load windows so I'm at a loss as to what to do next apart from trying a recovery program...

Tangodeltasierra3

try the it section

Wazzzer

forgot about that

Turbocabbie

run a linux live cd such as Knoppix and that will read slightly damaged NTFS filesystems..copy the data to a usb key

St3V3_C

It sounds like you tried to run it as the main disk in another PC?

If so, try it as a slave on a different PC and then see what you can see. Might be lucky

Paulo P

That's what I was about to suggest. It worked on my old laptop when the hard drive became corrupt

Avi

run it as a slave drive in another pc and run a
chkdsk /f

from the command prompt, quite often works

Wazzzer

no I tried it as a slave in this one Steve, nothing worked

I'll try that Linux program, cheers