Have a Western Digital 1TB laptop drive from a dell inspiron with windows 8 64bit that crashed on me last week - a few hours of grinding noises and then no response - no boot. Drive has been replaced by Dell, but I would like to recover two folders - approximately 600MB of data from the drive.
I have tried the following:
1. Live Ubuntu / Knoppix / System Rescue CD / Hiren Boot CD / Falcon4 Boot CD with the drive as the internal drive in a spare laptop, in an external case. GPARTED and other Disk Managers hang on trying to load the disc. FDISK in the live linux distros shows the drive as a single partition - GPT drive.
2. Gdisk shows the three partitions with the correct size.
3. DDRESCUE was not able to copy data
4. TESTDISC - stayed at the <PROCEED> screen all night without moving forward.
5. Connecting it to an external SATA enclosure and plugging into a Windows machine results in the disc management console to hang - explorer stops responding and the drive then needs to be pulled out.
Any further advice?
I have tried the following:
1. Live Ubuntu / Knoppix / System Rescue CD / Hiren Boot CD / Falcon4 Boot CD with the drive as the internal drive in a spare laptop, in an external case. GPARTED and other Disk Managers hang on trying to load the disc. FDISK in the live linux distros shows the drive as a single partition - GPT drive.
2. Gdisk shows the three partitions with the correct size.
3. DDRESCUE was not able to copy data
4. TESTDISC - stayed at the <PROCEED> screen all night without moving forward.
5. Connecting it to an external SATA enclosure and plugging into a Windows machine results in the disc management console to hang - explorer stops responding and the drive then needs to be pulled out.
Any further advice?
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