I've had good experience with Steve Gibson's Spinrite. There's a ton of
testimonials here
http://www.grc.com/sr/testimonials.htm
This guy is one of the best, I would trust everything he does.
Spinrite is worth paying for simply for the maintenance effect, I buy very
little proprietary stuff but I have a copy of this. You're welcome to borrow
my copy if you undertake to buy your own copy if it works for you.
Contact me off list if interested - rustleg @ gmail dot com.
Regards
Russell Gadd
2009/1/25 Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson@???>
> It's a sad tale... and cautionary.... people, this is why we take
> backups...
>
> Anyway - I need to recover a bunch of critical files from an NTFS
> partition on a disk which has been damaged by being dropped.
>
> The disk in question was set up as a dual boot, and I was able to boot
> into her Linux system, but it's painfully slow, and there are lots of
> error messages indicating that the disk is damaged.
>
> I can't boot into windows. I can't mount the partition. I've tried
> running ntfsfix, and I've tried using the windows recovery console on
> the windows CD, and while I have been able to run chkdsk, after it
> completes I still can't mount it, and Windows claims to be missing a
> vital file, and won't boot.
>
> I've tried using dd_rescue to image the disk, but it ran for a whole
> day and only managed 2G of data.
>
> What next? Money isn't really an issue - the data needs to be
> recovered. Can anyone recommend a specialist who might, for example,
> remove the platter, or extract data electrostatically? Any other
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks guys,
>
> S
>
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