Failed Drive
Posted: 07 Sep 2012, 22:14
Hello all. I recently had the internal HDD (Seagate Momentus 320GB) in my laptop completely fail on me. It was working fine, then the machine froze, and upon restart the computer went repeatedly into Windows startup repair, which was unable to fix the problem. I have now removed the drive, and attached it via a SATA/USB docking station to my desktop PC, which is running Windows 7. The HDD comes up as M:, but shows as empty, and the drive properties show 0 free space 0 used space with a full pie chart
(no free space). In diskmgmt.msc it shows it as Raw. The drive has a second recovery partition which is 15GB, using Testdisk v 6.14 it will only show the recovery partition, and not the main one. I would really like to recover the data on this drive, so any help you could offer would be appreciated. Thanks.
(no free space). In diskmgmt.msc it shows it as Raw. The drive has a second recovery partition which is 15GB, using Testdisk v 6.14 it will only show the recovery partition, and not the main one. I would really like to recover the data on this drive, so any help you could offer would be appreciated. Thanks.