On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 03:35:16PM +0100, Denny wrote: > On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 15:25 +0100, Francesco Nidito wrote: > > > > Did you already try to remove the hd from the laptop, put it in an external > > hd enclosure and try to recover data from there? > > People with "almost 0 IT expertise" don't generally do that sort of > thing. I would assume that's why Aaron is asking for professional > recommendations. >
But if it comes to this, and the disk is really in bad shape, I would heartily recommend GNU ddrescue. http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) A substitute is never as good as the genuine article. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #67 (Epic))
