A few days ago I decided to re-partition my laptop's HD (again), but Partition Magic met with what was apparently a bad sector on the disk, and just quit half way through, leaving me with a half-re-partitioned 40GB disk... From then on, blue sceen on startup, and no successful boot for windows. For some reason my knoppix CD was not working, and this is my only computer at the moment, so I took it to IBMs repair center, and they looked at it and said it's a drive failure caused by a bad sector, then replaced my drive with a new one. So now I'm up and running, and luckily most of my important data was backed up, but i still want to attempt to scavenge any remaining intact data off the old HD.
My question is this: is it possible to recover any data off a drive that only had one bad sector, but a re-partitioning process was only half-completed? When I first brought in my computer, the customer service guy put my HD into a dock station to see if anything was recoverable; his answer was no, but all he did was open up Disk Manager to see if win xp detected the drive.
How can I be absolutely sure that nothing is recoverable? If the drive doesn't appear in BIOS, would that mean that I can't do anything? (or does disk manager hold the exact same info as BIOS? I don't know anything about this stuff)
If I can just get the drive to become detectable again, then I could access it with file recovery software. Any ideas?
In about 5-6 hours from now I'm heading over to see what I can do (my HDD now belongs to Lenovo, but they said I can go try and pull data off it at their service center if I want), any advice before then would be apprectiated! Thanks!
(FYI: at the time the HD had only one partition, C, and i was in the process of making the partition smaller (to free up space for another))
My question is this: is it possible to recover any data off a drive that only had one bad sector, but a re-partitioning process was only half-completed? When I first brought in my computer, the customer service guy put my HD into a dock station to see if anything was recoverable; his answer was no, but all he did was open up Disk Manager to see if win xp detected the drive.
How can I be absolutely sure that nothing is recoverable? If the drive doesn't appear in BIOS, would that mean that I can't do anything? (or does disk manager hold the exact same info as BIOS? I don't know anything about this stuff)
If I can just get the drive to become detectable again, then I could access it with file recovery software. Any ideas?
In about 5-6 hours from now I'm heading over to see what I can do (my HDD now belongs to Lenovo, but they said I can go try and pull data off it at their service center if I want), any advice before then would be apprectiated! Thanks!
(FYI: at the time the HD had only one partition, C, and i was in the process of making the partition smaller (to free up space for another))
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