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You shutdown Windows, and since it has taken too long to shutdown, you decide to press the Power button to power off your laptop or PC. Power up again, and guess what: the most efficient recipe to damaging your hard drive has just been discovered!
I had almost 200GB worth of important data which is very priceless to me. My HP Pavilion dv7 laptop had this Toshiba 640GB harddrive that all of a sudden will no longer boot Windows. I tried to recover, I tried a Windows rescue disc, and all to no avail. I thought to myself, huh, that's easy, I will go and grab an enclosure. While enclosures can help to make your harddrive portable, it may not work especially if you have Windows Vista or Windows 7 or higher. Reason is: MBR has been replaced with GPT. So, if you plug the drive into another computer through the USB port and the enclosure, chances are you will never be able to read the content. So, I put my harddrive back in the laptop.
Out of complete despair, I googled recovering harddisk data and I found a company near by who said they could help, but gave me a price estimate of $850.00! The entire laptop costs less than that. Finally I decided to try Ubuntu, and I consulted a friend of mine who advised me to get the latest Ubuntu release. Yes, a Live Ubuntu CD can really help, almost always!
So I burned this image on a CD, booted it up, and I saw all my harddrives. Immediately comes my second external harddrive and I copied as much data as I could off the harddrive on to my external.
One unfortunate thing about Ubuntu despite its great ability to mount NTFS read/write is that it cannot repair the harddrive nor defragment it.
Lesson #1: always keep a backup of your valuable information. Lesson #2: Ubuntu is your friend.
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