This would be a recovery process from a mechanical failure of your hard drive, not bad/damaged sectors or corrupted/damaged files;

http://www.datarecoverypros.com/hard-drive...ery-freeze.html

http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/f...cover-data.html


Seems to work long enough to recover your files

I have a Hitachi 2.5" laptop drive and cannot get any data of of it.

Are you saying this can recover it

Yes, if it's a mechanical failure, ie; drive stops spinning or doesn't spin up.

Actually it spins but I am not sure how well.

I have been trying to read it with no luck.

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There is a recovery guide called 200 ways to revive a dead hard drive http://www.scribd.com/doc/2199096/200-Ways...ve-A-Hard-Drive its a good read and has had some good results.

Also http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm never used it myself, but has had some good reviews.

nigglesnush85,

Thanks, I will dig into that and see what I can glean.

I'll be back

Aww man...I already reformatted my hard drive.

That may not be an issue, some of the reading I have found says even a formatted drive can be recovered.
I have not tried that ..

Maybe this will work. I hope so!