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Hello;
Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!
There's really no way of telling how much damage you did to your hard drive ...
It not being found means that anything could have been corrupted, ranging from something as simple as the boot information, to the partition boot record, to nearly everything on the drive!
Your best bet for recovering data now is to do the following:
1) Remove the hard drive from the PC
2) Purchase a USB-to-Hard Driver adapter kit
3) Download and install this utility on a working PC: http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/recover_data_in_3_steps_with_minitool_power_data_recovery_free_...
4) Connect the old drive to the working PC
5) Run the data recovery utility to see what can be retrieved from the old drive.
If that tools does not find what you need, an alternative is Recuva: http://www.piriform.com/recuva
And, if that does not work well, the best tool out there is this one, but only the trial version is free: http://www.file-recovery.com/
I am a volunteer and I do not work for, nor represent, HP
38,402
8,278
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HP Recommended
Hello;
Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!
There's really no way of telling how much damage you did to your hard drive ...
It not being found means that anything could have been corrupted, ranging from something as simple as the boot information, to the partition boot record, to nearly everything on the drive!
Your best bet for recovering data now is to do the following:
1) Remove the hard drive from the PC
2) Purchase a USB-to-Hard Driver adapter kit
3) Download and install this utility on a working PC: http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/recover_data_in_3_steps_with_minitool_power_data_recovery_free_...
4) Connect the old drive to the working PC
5) Run the data recovery utility to see what can be retrieved from the old drive.
If that tools does not find what you need, an alternative is Recuva: http://www.piriform.com/recuva
And, if that does not work well, the best tool out there is this one, but only the trial version is free: http://www.file-recovery.com/
I am a volunteer and I do not work for, nor represent, HP
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