Laptop took a fall

[fionnkool]

I'm a first time poster here as I need help.My laptop fell and whilst fedora still runs ok
the other OP(XP) that contains most of my univercity files has gone AWOL.I ran ckkdsk and file system is"unknown" and is "unrecoverable".I tried connecting the disk to another pc but HD will not open.Any options other than tears?My experience with fedora is only this month......Thanks in advance.

[Dangermouse]

Hello, it might be possible for you to install ntfs-3g via yum, then fdisk -l and it should see the partition, then it would be just a case of mounting it.
yum install ntfs-3g
fdisk -l
mount -o loop -t iso9660 <isofilename> <mountpoint>

[Dan]

Yikes!

Dangermouse has the only idea I know of, save sending the HDD in to a commercial company to try to rescue the data.

A word of warning though. It sounds like the disk was turning when it hit, and you got a head-slap. One of the consequences of a head-slap is not only a dig in the surface of the drive, but the debris that may have been cut from the surface wandering around in there looking for an opportunity to get hooked on the heads, and create another dig. Run it a little as possible; just enough to rescue your data. The drive is physically damaged, and hard drives don't heal.

Hope this helps.


Dan