HD Crash, require turbo tax files off it.

[Milo D]

My PC give up booting to windows, my opinion were MFT or something. You do not hear any death blow, only the normal operation of high definition. I'm running XP, is a SATA 500 GB on a Sony Viao. No password on the system. I thought to connect an outer hard disk drive her to my laptop. When I do, I can see E: and the first layer of sub-folders. If I go deeper, my folder on your computer freezes. So I downloaded and ran get data back NTFS XP is an operating system. At the end of the scan, it said without NTFS file system found. So I ran FAT32 just for laughs, there is a FAT32 file system found. I also run the format I do not know and clone option and said no file systems were found.

[samar69]

I am not sure it will work or not for you because I am not personally use it but I heard somewhere about it so based on that I would like to tell you that try to reduce the extent to GetDataBack. It is necessary to manually adjust the range that GDB analyzed. If you can work around the area that makes freezing may be able to get the files back. My friend had this same problem and this is how he did it. And if this will help you then it is fine.

[Mayur_Jain]

Your explanation of the problem sounded like a few terrible sectors - almost certainly in the directory structure. r-studio uses a dissimilar algorithm and appears to be a bit more violent in recovering those kind of problems. Type of like image manipulation software, if they everyone were equal in every situation, there would be only one. R-studio holds bad sectors a slight better than getdataback in my knowledge. What is the build and model # of the drive, Ubuntu is an OS, not actually a recovery program. Or you can use TestDisk. If TestDisk observes the divider s and directories, it will let you copy them out.

[Milo D]

This unit is being recognized through Windows, but that program is causing my computer to lock and / or study-r for the freezing of the initialization screen. I've asked around and say that this is not a problem to replace the PCB quick fix. It needs major surgery. I have been doing a lot of youtube and I have yet to find explaining my situation and what is happening. If taken in the effort of cracking open this unit, what would I be looking to replace or repair? Which is exactly what I have to look for in a donor unit?

[Mindstorm]

I thought that when the drive is scanned, it had everything; this behavior is different when scanning with the demo? The PCB replacement set does not work as before. Most modern units require moving the ROM card to the donor patient. This is achieved by moving the ROM chip in some units, and in others by using special hardware to copy the ROM code and patches in the microcode of the donor. Since this is something 7200.11 first thing to do is go to the Support site and is not a Seagate 7200.11 corrector serial number. SD15 firmware had a few errors known to cause a failure similar to what we are seeing. Check your serial number and see if there is a firmware update available. You can download it for future use, but until the unit is fixed does not apply the patch, is to prevent the problem from occurring, not to cure, if any. How is the unit identified in the BIOS as the name and quality? Let us know the results of the verification standard and the BIOS information and we'll see if this is a candidate for the firmware revision.