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A 500Mb Hitachi internal desktop drive has just failed on me during an OS reinstall. The partition that failed is showing as unformatted; the second partition has data on which I would like to salvage. Unfortunately this partition is not showing up on any free tools I have downloaded (not gone fully down the DD route yet as am unfamiliar with Linux).

The size of the data does show in Macrium Reflect- which is reassuring- but it is greyed and I cannot back-up or image that 2nd partition.

Any suggestions gratefully received!
 
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Thanks Trekzone

The Linux boot disc saw only the first, now unformatted partition that I was trying to reinstall Windows on, not the second partition with the data. I didn't go too far with DD rescue as learning linux from the ground up would take me longer than I would like to be able to retrieve the data.

In the end I found a business locally who has located the data, and is retrieving it for me- for about the cost of a replacement drive, which seemed reasonable considering the files that were on there. Better that than risking errors myself and potentially making the problem worse...
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Thanks Trekzone

The Linux boot disc saw only the first, now unformatted partition that I was trying to reinstall Windows on, not the second partition with the data. I didn't go too far with DD rescue as learning linux from the ground up would take me longer than I would like to be able to retrieve the data.

In the end I found a business locally who has located the data, and is retrieving it for me- for about the cost of a replacement drive, which seemed reasonable considering the files that were on there. Better that than risking errors myself and potentially making the problem worse!

The moral I've drawn from this is to keep all my data on external drives where it should be safer. As well as backing up more regularly!

thanks for the response



 
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