Need help and/or ideas to recover data from notebook HD

[yezleb]

I received and error message on boot up into Win XP Pro. Lsass.exe - Application Error (ok to terminate) and then followed by Services.exe - Application Error. Screen when blank and only had a mouse pointer. Could not boot into safe mode - same errors. Tried running the recovery console to repair the windows installation. No luck. I can browse the windows folder and sub-folders through the recovery console prompt. When I look at the rest of the folders they combe back with a byte count of zero. Took out the drive and put into disk enclosure with a USB connection. Connected to another notebook as external drive. It can be seen in disk manager but not as a drive in my computer. Disk manager reports the partition as healthy. I believe (not sure) that the File Allocation Table is corrupted. Need to recover data files. And yes, I was an idiot and haven't done a backup in a while. Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.

 

[kathe]

When you connected this hard disk to another notebook PC, can windows display the partitions in that hard disk? Can you access that partitions? If not, how did it say?

Data Recovery:

http://www.easeus.com;

Partition Recovery:

http://www.ptdd.com.

 

[Santei]

u might need 3_rd party recovering software.
Disk Director is partition utility, that has recovery feature. U can download trial version to find out if it suits u.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/

 

[yezleb]

Sorry for the late respone. I was able to recover the data. I could see the partition only in disk manager as a healthy partition, but could not see it under my computer. I suspected the file allocation table was corrupt. I did find a nice utility software from partition-recovery.com that was fantastic. Created a bootable cd with usb support - saw the files - re-created the table and was able to recover 100% of the data.

 

[Santei]

nice to hear that.
and thanks for reply anyway