Hard Disk Data Recovery

Hi there,

My laptop IBM R50 hard drive started giving problem.
Suddenly partition table is automatically deleted and my data is lost. I
tried recovering using Stellar Phonix but all efforts are gone in vain.

Pls suggest, what reliable software should I use to recover it.

Thanks in advance
Best Regard

Sanjay

Continuation to below query

Hard disk is detected by usb device as well as in CMOS.


"SANJAY PAWAR" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi there,
>
> My laptop IBM R50 hard drive started giving problem.
> Suddenly partition table is automatically deleted and my data is lost. I
> tried recovering using Stellar Phonix but all efforts are gone in vain.
>
> Pls suggest, what reliable software should I use to recover it.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Best Regard
>
> Sanjay
>
>
>

Frankly, if the data is that important, there is no consumer-grade tool I'd
recommend using to recover it. I'd have a professional service recover it.
Any tool that starts writing to the disc may well doom the rest of the data
on the disc and make it unrecoverable.

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"SANJAY PAWAR" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi there,
>
> My laptop IBM R50 hard drive started giving problem.
> Suddenly partition table is automatically deleted and my data is lost. I
> tried recovering using Stellar Phonix but all efforts are gone in vain.
>
> Pls suggest, what reliable software should I use to recover it.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Best Regard
>
> Sanjay
>
>
>

Hi,

You could try mbrwork from terabyteunlimited.com (in the freeware section)
to recover the partitions, but I would be cautious with writing to the
drive. My approach would be to slave the drive and image it, then attempt to
recover data.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"SANJAY PAWAR" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi there,
>
> My laptop IBM R50 hard drive started giving problem.
> Suddenly partition table is automatically deleted and my data is lost. I
> tried recovering using Stellar Phonix but all efforts are gone in vain.
>
> Pls suggest, what reliable software should I use to recover it.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Best Regard
>
> Sanjay
>
>
>

ontrack, but you will pay heavily

--
Josh
http://windowsconnected.com
"SANJAY PAWAR" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi there,
>
> My laptop IBM R50 hard drive started giving problem.
> Suddenly partition table is automatically deleted and my data is lost. I
> tried recovering using Stellar Phonix but all efforts are gone in vain.
>
> Pls suggest, what reliable software should I use to recover it.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Best Regard
>
> Sanjay
>
>
>

"SANJAY PAWAR" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi there,
>
> My laptop IBM R50 hard drive started giving problem.
> Suddenly partition table is automatically deleted and my data is lost. I
> tried recovering using Stellar Phonix but all efforts are gone in vain.
>
> Pls suggest, what reliable software should I use to recover it.


I had a MFT failure on a partition and could not access it.

The only thing that I found that helped was GetDataBack. It got all my
files back, although some directory and file names were lost due to the
drive failure. There is a free trial that will show whether it will work
for you or not.

http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

ss.

"SANJAY PAWAR" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi there,
>
> My laptop IBM R50 hard drive started giving problem.
> Suddenly partition table is automatically deleted and my data is lost. I
> tried recovering using Stellar Phonix but all efforts are gone in vain.
>
> Pls suggest, what reliable software should I use to recover it.


If your drive is physically in a good state then you can try to rebuild a
partition table using freeware program Testdisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/ .
If only one partition is missing or you get a message "the partition is not
formatted", then you can try to recover a spare copy of bootsector of that
partition, or rebuild it from scratch.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/phpwiki/index.php/examples .
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