Windows 10: Data recovery

Hi all,

So my laptop died [I do know a dead one when I see one] during a writing session. Totally dead. 2 uninterrupted hours of stream-of-consciousness with background saves every 5 minutes so I guessed I lost 5 minutes worth, max.

How wrong am I? My problem is that the old days seem to be gone - I take the drive out, put it into other machines/external boxes and try ALL my old tricks.

No data. Zip.

All help/suggestions greatly appreciated.

:)

 

data recovery

Unfortunately, if you never copied your photos to a computer or uploaded them to your Onedrive account and you performed a hard reset of the phone, the photos are lost permanently and they cannot be restored.

 

recovery of data

What data do you refer to??

 

Spinrite? Does the hard drive spin up at all?

Pro and Con arguments ref. condensation (internal) and putting it in a fridge/freezer. I suppose with progressive temperature reduction and dessicants you could reduce the risk and gain the chance of some recovery.

It all depends on the value of the data vs the effort (and expense with commercial data recovery) you wish to expend.

Somewhat disconcerting that both the laptop and drive are dead- suggests significant power problem.

 

Hi dalchina thanks for the answer - I guess I wasn't clear. The drive is fine. SMART checks out totally. The drive is not the problem - I am guessing some encryption from MS is locking me/anyone out.

The laptop mainboard is totalled. I work with hardware and a soldering iron is not going to fix this

 

Last piece of SW I heard of that can burn up HW was "Door Stopper" for Atari. It would accelerate processor until it literary burned out. Since than a lot has changed and processor and other parts have built in safeties to shut down or at least throttle down system if overheated or overvolted.

 

Ah.. did you use bitlocker? (Am familiar with soldering irons.. *Wink)

Just came across this .. but I'm 99.99% sure it won't help with encryption.. despite the remarkable price if sold
Free Disk Recovery Wizard (100% discount) - SharewareOnSale
so just for interest- maybe.

Ref. Bitlocker FYI:
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/recove...ncrypted-drive

 

That's an interesting link

Thanks.

...ad .. nope - I guess 10 has encryption keys somewhere I have no access to

 

No.. I've just tried attaching a HDD I had in this laptop- can read it.
Can you see all the partitions?

 

yep partitions are there - is your other machine W10?

none of mine are.

 

Ok, there is a difference in our situations- I have the one win 10 laptop and a Win 7 netbook for travelling. I put the Win 10 HDD I had in this laptop in a case as a USB disk connected to the same laptop. (The netbook has been put away).

What happens if you try to read any of the partitions?
Note: if you want to overcome any restrictions imposed by running Windows use the boot disk from e.g. partition manager or a data recovery program, or one of the (older) boot disks like Falcon's or Hiren's.

 

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