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How to access corrupt drive?

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DellAxim

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I have a laptop that was running windows 10 on a 500gb hard drive, divided into two partitions. The drive became corrupt after a forced shut down and would no longer boot windows. I took the drive out and put it in a USB case on another computer. The original boot partition is totally corrupt, windows will not open in. I can access most of the files in the second partition but not all of them.

Is there any utility I can download to potentially recover some of the files on the original boot partition? I suspect if I reformat the drive it will work OK but I would really like to recover some of the old files first. It's been a long time since I've done anything like this, I'm not sure what utilities are available.
 
Tried check disk - it says there is no problem which is definitely not true. Other programs are telling me the HD has several bad sectors. It's much worse than just the MBR - I cannot access the partition that was originally the C drive through windows on another computer at all. Windows cannot read that partition.

I tried the "photo" recovery program that comes with Testdisk, it is recovering files but renaming every file and spreading them out into dozens of different folders. No way I can find the files I want mixed in with thousands of random windows files, .dlls, and all sorts of other random system files that I do not need.

Is there a program that can recover the files off the drive while keeping the original file names and file structures? It would take me months to sort through every last file that testdisk is giving me and renaming. I don't need the thousands of system files and DLLs and such. It's impossible to sort through 200gb of files when they are all renamed and put in different folders with all the system files....

It seems the files on the corrupt partition are recoverable, I just need the right program to do it. There is no way I can sort through every last system/program file that has been renamed to find the few files I want to keep.
 
Windows is not very good at dealing with bad sectors and reading through them, linux has less issues, unstoppable copier will give you a few options for corrupt/bad files.
 
Oh, I meant testdisk itself; it'll allow you to recover your partition tables, and access the partitions.
gparted-live has testdisk with it, you can boot it from a usb stick.
 
GetDataBack is one of the first programs I use to handle troublesome drives.
 
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