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Laptop Unbootable - Drive Shows As Uninitialised

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  • Boot from a Linux USB flash drive. Use Puppy or like that to navigate. Pull the data off the drive. Do a quick low level format. Reinstall OS. If you don't have windows about. DL Linux mint and see if

  • There is a Windows program that can clone the drive.  It's called "Partition Master" and can still be found by it's older name "Partition Magic".  The program can be downloaded from the web...just do

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5 hours ago, jackdd said:

You don't need to mount it to copy it (which would of course not be possible of there is a problem with the partition table).

In Linux you can copy the raw data of a device without mounting a partition, see the link which i posted previously.

If the HDD isn't working at all this will of course also not get you any further.

 

4 hours ago, Tayaout said:

Before you connect via Linux you can run:

sudo journalctl -f

<snip>

 

I'm now convinced that the disk is dead. What Windows and Linux showed or did when the SATA-USB Bridge box was connected, was simply the O/S communicating with the box via the PC's USB port.

 

I did use another disk in the box and it worked OK - the disk was detected by both Windows and Linux.

 

I also removed the disk from the box to see how Windows and Linux would behave with no disk present:

Linux behaved the same - when I click on the "USB 3.0" icon, "Unable to mount location" was displayed.

Windows behaved the same - in Disk Management, attempting to initialize the "Unknown disk" resulted in "The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error."

 

So the PC reacted the same, whether the disk was in the box or not - running either Windows and Linux.

 

But the final test was when I removed the disk from the box and connected it directly to a SATA port on the motherboard: the BIOS didn't show the disk.

 

Thanks again for all suggestions. 

 

 

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5 hours ago, johng said:

Yes DD = Destroyer of Data   you must be extremely careful and understand  which disc is  input and which is output.

 

I had some good results with "Testdisk"

 

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

I have used Testdisk before, many many years ago, but it needs a disk to be at least detected by the BIOS. ????

 

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