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If you can't afford professional recovery, then give Ontrack a try.<br />
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You can recover 1 file for free but if it sees all your files you can purchase it.<br />
<a href="http://www.krollontrack.com/resource-library/free-downloads/" rel="ugc">http://www.krollontrack.com/resource-library/free-downloads/</a>
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If you can't afford professional recovery, then give Ontrack a try.

You can recover 1 file for free but if it sees all your files you can purchase it.
http://www.krollontrack.com/resource-library/free-downloads/ [http://www.krollontrack.com/resource-library/free-downloads/]

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Have you tried booting from a Bart - or other recovery - CD? That might let you retrieve at least some of the data...
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Have you tried booting from a Bart - or other recovery - CD? That might let you retrieve at least some of the data...

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I used ubcd4win and it didn't see a C drive<br />

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I used ubcd4win and it didn't see a C drive


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What's a good data recovery company for someone based in New York state?
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What's a good data recovery company for someone based in New York state?

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I replaced the drive and rebuilt the system. The user decided not to pay for recovery which would have cost a minimum $1,200
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I replaced the drive and rebuilt the system. The user decided not to pay for recovery which would have cost a minimum $1,200

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An XP Pro Dell Latitude d160 laptop suddenly died. Any attempt to boot yields disk read error press ctl alt del to restart. <br />
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I booted in the recovery console and attempted chkdsk /r and chkdsk /r /p and it reported the volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems.<br />
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The user's backup was run while the disk reported problems and is useless.<br />
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What is the best next step?<br />
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Is Spinrite a choice or should I just send it to a data recovery service and not play with it for fear of causing greater damage?<br />
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An XP Pro Dell Latitude d160 laptop suddenly died. Any attempt to boot yields disk read error press ctl alt del to restart. 

I booted in the recovery console and attempted chkdsk /r and chkdsk /r /p and it reported the volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems.

The user's backup was run while the disk reported problems and is useless.

What is the best next step?

Is Spinrite a choice or should I just send it to a data recovery service and not play with it for fear of causing greater damage?



disk read error with unrecoverable problems

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Disaster Recovery

The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.