how do i recover data from corrupt windows HD?

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BulletHead

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my windows pc doesnt boot up anymore. so i took out the hd and hooked it up to my other pc hoping i could recover my data on the desktop at least.

i can get to my desktop but i doubt there being another partition where i stored some data. how would i get to that? would i see the other partition as another drive letter under explorer (e: )?

if i do have another partition, how would i navigate to it? here is the image of the what i see.

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Partitions should be assigned their own drive letter. Go to My Computer?

Or try diskmgmt.msc.
 
If you don't see it in disk managment you'll need to try software to recover the partition, most likely if the drive wasn't booting you don't have anohter partition if you can't see it in disk managment. Also if it wasn't booting or you got the invalid system disk error you probably just foobarred your master boot record google that and look at restoring it, on my bio sif that happens i can just hit F11 boot menu and choose the hard drive i want to boot of directly to work around not having to rebuild it.

If you need to recover the partition there are plenty of good peices of software that will recover it, none are coming to mind off hand, sure someone will mention one. All your data is on your c drive, unless you manually changed it but i haven't seen any computer shipped like that, i always put mydocs on a different drive, for when i multiboot, and i could see that being on a different drive.

C:\windows\system32\ is where that disk management thing is if it doesn't open from the run command.
 
actually that was a brain fart post. i actually did run disk management and its a 80GB disk and i only see about 34GB partitioned in disk management. dont know why the rest of it isnt showing up.
 
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