I have been unable to access the hard drive on my laptop no matter what I do. Couldn't even get access to the BIOS so I have removed it and bought a USB to IDE cable which I have connected to the usb port on my desktop. The drive gets recognised but shows nothing. I have booted my desktop pc with the UBCD but am stuck of what to do next. I tried to use the TestDisk facility but got nowhere can anyone help me get access to my data on this laptop hard drive
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Laptop HDD help
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Look at: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
Using TestDisk
* OS specific notes
* TestDisk Step by Step to recover lost partitions and repair damaged FAT/NTFS boot sector
* Running the TestDisk Program
* Undelete files and directory from FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 filesystem
* Undelete files from ext2 filesystem
* Undelete files from NTFS partition
* Recovery examples
* Scripted run
* Support
Download Ultimate Boot CD v5.0: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html
Use Parted Magic for handling all partitioning task: http://partedmagic.com/
Use Parted Magic for handling all partitioning task: http://partedmagic.com/