Re: unallocated HD

Thank you for both responses - however she does not have the money to take it
someplace to have this done, is there anyone that can help me with
suggestions as to software that is reliabe and I can do this myself or have
the techs at my school help?
--
Thanks,,
Kim


"Anna" wrote:

>
> "Kim K" <KimK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:FC959E4C-CA59-4BF4-A018-8A90C8BE20FF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > My daughter brought her laptop home for me to salvage her data off her HD.
> > I
> > can connect it via USB adapters to my laptop and it picks up and
> > recognizes
> > the HD. It does not show up in my computer, but in disk management it
> > shows
> > as unallocated space.
> >
> > It wants me to initialize it, I think I am forced to do this, but do not
> > want to chance ruing anymore data, and partition recovery is a demo and
> > not
> > of any use to me, although it sees files on the disk.
> >
> > Any suggestions to help recover the data? She is in the army and has a
> > family and all her docs and pictures form Korea are on teh disk and I want
> > to
> > help, any ideas please?
> > --
> > Thanks,,
> > Kim
>
>
> Kim:
> First of all, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you "Initialize" the drive.
> That's a prelude for, in effect, destroying whatever data is on that drive.
>
> The fact that Disk Management sees the drive as containing "unallocated
> space" is an ominous signal, although it is possible that the drive has been
> multi-partitioned and there is "unallocated (disk) space" on the drive in
> addition to another partition or partitions containing the data you wish to
> recover.
>
> But frankly, this does not sound like a good situation in terms of accessing
> data off that drive. It sounds like the data is very important for your
> daughter & family. As such, under these circumstances, I would strongly
> recommend you take the laptop to a local computer repair facility, hopefully
> one that you know or can find out, that has a good reputation for their
> diagnoses and recommendations.
> Anna
>
>
>
.

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