How to recover from a logical failure

[archey]

This afternoon i turned on my pc(nothing was wrong the night before) to come back 20 minutes later and see it still on the vista 'loading' bar. I tried booting in safe mode but it would just stop after getting to a certain .sys file. I tried changing the boot order in the BIOS just incase it was trying to boot from my external HDD(that didn work). Which brings me to logical failure. I was reading on the internet and someone said if its recognized by the bios but you cannot boot its a logical failure.

Now my question is, can i somehow recover data from this drive, or maybe even somehow fix it and still be able to use it and have most of the data?

Thanks,
Reece

 

[jsmakkar]

Hello Reece,

Here is a suggestion.

Try to boot from Parted Magic CD. No install is required. Check if your data is visible and you are able to save.

 

[archey]

So i just burn the .iso to a disc, boot from that and see if i can see my files and see if i can save. if i can save, do i need another disc drive to burn my data to another disc?

 

[jsmakkar]

You could then possibly save Data to your Primary HDD (C: ) if you have space.

 

[archey]

my primary is the one that won't boot i do have another external that i could save

 

[jsmakkar]

Ya, sorry, save on external one.