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Laptop HDD crashed

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Darshan Singh
Darshan Singh Original post #1
Sep 15, 2014 at 2:21 PM
Hi guys,

Yesterday, while working on my laptop, I heard a screeching sound and the laptop halted. I restarted it and it gave an NTLDR: cannot read Boot.ini error. Whenever I start the laptop, the HDD makes clicky sounds. I have backup of all the data except one folder which contains some important files. I want to know if there is any way it can be read, maybe by tinkering with the HDD head or something. There is no need to boot from the disk as I will connect it via USB by using a conversion cable. I just want to get it working one last time so that I can copy that folder.

Any help would be appreciated.
vidhubhushan
Sep 17, 2014 at 6:47 PM
do not use / switch on the laptop. connect the hdd using usb cables on any other system and check there.