Best way to recover a partition

james201

james201

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Hello, one of my HDD's partitions recently packed up with and input output error, however it is just one of them, what i am looking for is what would be the best way to recover the data from it, fairly quickly, at minimal expense, the partition is only 125GB, on a 500GB hard drive, It is running windows 7, which will not boot, and i have tried to chkdsk it to no luck. And now not even linux is able to mount the drive to copy the stuff over. So it needs recovering.

I have another hard drive to transfer the data to, as i have a feeling this one hasn't got long left.

Thanks in advance
James
 
Hi, I had a drive fail under Vista in 2009 and although it wouldn't boot it was still spinning slowly. I managed to clone it with Acronis True Image and the new drive booted OK. The process ran slowly but it did work.
If you're looking to avoid expense you could try Clonezilla. I know you said Linux would no longer mount the drive, but you could try booting off a Clonezilla live cd and attempt to clone the whole drive or 125 GB partition over to your new disk. (or possibly even a backup of the 125 GB to the new disk then do a restore)
 
The best thing i've had for this was Active@ UNDELETE. Had a raid0 fail on me and this was able to piece things back together in fairly short order so a single partition should be a breeze.
Its $39 so not THAT cheap but one of the few bits of random software like this i've felt I got my moneys worth from.
 
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