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So my friend's laptop hdd is dying and I pull it out and plug it up to my desktop to save whatever data I can.
The hard-drive shows up on my computer with windows 7 warning me that the hard-drive is failing and needs to be back-up. I can access the hard-drive fine and see all the folders (windows, users, etc folders) but each folder is empty?
The hard-drive shows as 139GB free out 140GB. I noticed her user account doesn't even show up in the "user" folder. Only the Administration, Public, and default users do. I do have hidden folders and files view enable.
I ran chkdsk and it did quite a bit. I ran hdd regenerator for 75hours letting it fix a million bad sectors.
HDD tune pro reports:
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Anything I can do to jump start this drive and let me access any real data? Unless HP did something and hide all the files somehow. I already took ownership and permission over the "user" folder so I could extract all the My Documents and such data. But yea... as I mention before her user account is as if it doesn't exist. In every folder on the hard-drive it is empty including the windows folder and system32.
On the side note... the recovery partition is fine though. All folders and files are fine too. She had a few pictures and stuff on that partition (no idea why) but they were easily recoverable.
Anyone can help me out a bit?
The hard-drive shows up on my computer with windows 7 warning me that the hard-drive is failing and needs to be back-up. I can access the hard-drive fine and see all the folders (windows, users, etc folders) but each folder is empty?
The hard-drive shows as 139GB free out 140GB. I noticed her user account doesn't even show up in the "user" folder. Only the Administration, Public, and default users do. I do have hidden folders and files view enable.
I ran chkdsk and it did quite a bit. I ran hdd regenerator for 75hours letting it fix a million bad sectors.
HDD tune pro reports:
----------------
Anything I can do to jump start this drive and let me access any real data? Unless HP did something and hide all the files somehow. I already took ownership and permission over the "user" folder so I could extract all the My Documents and such data. But yea... as I mention before her user account is as if it doesn't exist. In every folder on the hard-drive it is empty including the windows folder and system32.
On the side note... the recovery partition is fine though. All folders and files are fine too. She had a few pictures and stuff on that partition (no idea why) but they were easily recoverable.
Anyone can help me out a bit?
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