User blog comment:WhiteSamurai/Get White Back on Track!/@comment-24.34.109.25-20150420205943

(Apologies in advance if this is a path you've already tried.)

First off:

Thank you, so, so, so much for the work you do. Seriously, if I had cash to spare, then I'd be sending it your way.

I'm sorry you've lost your work, and your computer, as well as the ability to access that data through the recovery feature.

However, I'm holding on to a slim hope that maybe there's still a chance of recovery -- it depends on what part of your laptop failed. (I'm assuming it was the drive itself.)

I have firsthand experience (albeit only for a few months) with recovering data from dying drives (even ones which were supposedly completely 'dead') -- it's not particularly easy or convenient, but it's still a possibility worth trying, if you haven't already done so.

There are some programs which -- while unable to actually restore full functionality to the original drive itself -- can, in some cases, copy part or all of the remaining data, bit-for-bit, to another drive. (For some programs, this includes any bits which may be 'corrupted'.) This is most likely to be possible if the region that failed in your laptop's drive was the sector containing the system files (such as the MBR or the OS) -- as opposed to the data which you used.

With that slim hope in mind, have you tried taking apart the now-dead laptop, and connecting the yet-unrecovered drive via a SATA cable (or an HDD dock) to another computer's MOBO?

If you could make a partition on a different drive that was still working properly, then it's possible that you could recover at least part of the data you currently cannot access.

Unfortunately, there's still a potential problem -- if the drive died due to a physical hardware error (an internal one), then, while it may still be possible to recover that data, it will not be easy to even attempt it; a hardware problem would require that you ship the drive to a dedicated data-recovery company -- and those companies aren't cheap.

The only thing I can do from this point is hope that you read this, hope that you haven't gotten rid of the laptop, and give you the name of one of the programs I know of which can do this, as well as (one of) my email addresses if you think this could help.

Program:

Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier

email:

cittran.lit@gmail.com