Hard drive issue Laptop

[jcg624]

I have a samsung harddrive that had linux mint and windows on it. Sunday the dropped

would not boot. kept giving me a Grub error. I made the mistake of resetting the mbr

with windows using fixmbr and fix boot. Now I am having trying seeing anything on the drive.

I have over 200 gigs of music I downloaded in addition to miscellaneous pics and other stuff

Now I am having trouble even seeing the drive. The drive is not that old 3 years maybe

can anyone offer any help or help with data recovery.



Thanks

 

[UrielDagda]

By turning it on after discovering the damage, you might have made it already impossible to retrieve.. Unless what you have is worth tons of money, it probably won't be worth the few grand it would take for a professional data recovery firm to recover the data.

Sounds like most of the stuff you can download again, not worth the trouble, since dropping it probably crashed the heads on the platter.

 

[jimh425]

Was it dual booting? Do you have a backup?

How was the drive partitioned? If you can pull the drive, use another linux system. Or burn a linux rescue disk.