how do I recover data from a non responsive hard drive?

jumanji said:

yep, Shift+F8. My bugle call to you to watch and catch worked .Thanks for sparing my knuckles :). Edited.

I'm sure Canuck knew what you meant, I only posted that in case a visitor looked that through the thread at some future date and time.

Bill
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jumanji said:

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But if it succeeds showing all the partitions after we go through a quick/deep scan and rebuild MBR exercise we may restore it to its original condition as before to access the data as usual. If it proves not possible, we have to resort to data recovery options. At the moment we really do not know what is the cause so we are only trying a known technique that has been successful in many cases and also not successful in many cases. We are still probing.

I'm using jumanji instructions so we're all on the same page. If this recovers the partition(s), it is the best scenario.

click on Partition Recovery and do a quick scan, then post a screen shot.

I think you've done this before so I'll keep the instructions short. (or maybe that was another thread)
You still want to take it step by step though.

Bill

That looks like the main window to me.
I would expect the scan to return something like the image in this PW page:
How to perform lost partition recovery and deleted partition recovery under Windows? Partition Recovery Help.

Did you do a quick scan or a full scan?

If you haven't yet scanned - follow the directions in the Minitool PW link above
Full disk, quick scan

Maybe you just grabbed the wrong image?

Just to be sure I understand.

You ran the quick scan
It returned a screen like this:



and you selected the parts on that screen?

or are you saying that you selected the parts on this screen

Ok, thanks

Please run the Partition Recovery wizard again,
select disk 2 - that's the faulty disk correct?
------- press the next button
select Full disk
------- press the next button
select Quick scan
------- press the next button

it should start scanning.

It sounds as though you selected the parts in range, but I'm not clear on what actually ended up in the field. It might have only been the last part you selected.

IT's important to specify Full disk, even if you only want certain parts.

When it's done scanning BEFORE you hit finish, please post a screen shot - it should be the Choose Search Partitions similar to the first image in post #47 This screen shows the addressing information.

It would be easier for me if you posted a screen cap for each step and wait for me to review before continuing to the next step.