Laptop HDD problem

[Lightning983]

Hello...

I just had my laptop "die" on me today... well i don't have any important data on it, but my wife has a couple of Gb of her pictures on it... and this a kind of a bad time to say "i told you so" about that backup thing...

Now its not the laptop that dies its just the HDD, but not really "dead", jut that there is nothing left on it... like the partition simply "dissapeared"

When i try to reinstally winxp, its says "unknown partition"

Is there any way i can try to recover the pictures? I Used to have a program called FileScavenger which worked quite well, but only on files i just deleted... will any recovery program work if windows doesn't recognize the partition?

Oh well...
Thanx

 

[dfuze]

You could try a Ubuntu cd and when you get to the desktop try to access the drive and then copy the files to a thumb drive.

Or take out the hard drive and connect it to your desktop (if its ATA you would need a converter) and try to connect to the drive that way.

 

[Lightning983]

I ordered a 44 - 40 pin adapter, and i'll try to hook it to my desktop... is there any particularly good recovery programs out there?

Its like when you get a new HDD, and windows just detects its there, but its unformatted yet...