[Gllug] Data Recovery

[Stephen Nelson-Smith]

It's a sad tale... and cautionary.... people, this is why we take backups...

Anyway - I need to recover a bunch of critical files from an NTFS
partition on a disk which has been damaged by being dropped.

The disk in question was set up as a dual boot, and I was able to boot
into her Linux system, but it's painfully slow, and there are lots of
error messages indicating that the disk is damaged.

I can't boot into windows.  I can't mount the partition.  I've tried
running ntfsfix, and I've tried using the windows recovery console on
the windows CD, and while I have been able to run chkdsk, after it
completes I still can't mount it, and Windows claims to be missing a
vital file, and won't boot.

I've tried using dd_rescue to image the disk, but it ran for a whole
day and only managed 2G of data.

What next?  Money isn't really an issue - the data needs to be
recovered.  Can anyone recommend a specialist who might, for example,
remove the platter, or extract data electrostatically?  Any other
suggestions?

Thanks guys,

S.
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