Anybody have any recommendations for a data recovery tool I should try on my hdd? It crashed and I have some stuff I would really want back.
The hdd is recognized in BIOS but the SMART command fails and is otherwise un-viewable in the OS. I've tried disabling SMART to no real use. I did however manage to get it to run a disk check on my OS install partition, but just one time. The result only showed a couple of KB of bad clusters and since the headers seem to still be somewhat working I'm hopeful I'll manage to get some files back.
And if that doesn't work, can anyone recommend an Europe based Data Recovery company that they've worked with?
Cheers!
Download a Linux distro and stick it on a flash drive then use that to boot your PC. Linux' disk tools are way more powerful and they will be able to tell you what can be done.
After that - if you can get the disk to work at all - I have a bunch of good recovery tools I can email you if you like.