So I have this laptop that had Spyware 2009/all kinds of trojans on it (but was still booting)...I remove the drive, plus it in to a USB adapter (all very carefully), and the drive won't come up in My Computer etc on 2 other computers.

So I put the drive back into the laptop and all the sudden it's "no bootable drive found." There's no clicking or noise, and I can tell it's powering on and spinning up. Any ideas on what to try to get the drive bootable again?

Also whats some good file recovery software for a situation like this? I've used Undelete in the past but I wanna know what else is out there. The drive isn't showing up in any BIOS (laptop or two desktops via usb) if that's any help.

5/31/2009 6:59:32 PM

PC File Inspector Recovery 4.0. It'll find lost partitions, deleted data, etc.

5/31/2009 9:53:44 PM

crap

nice program but it didn't work

anyone have any other ideas?

6/1/2009 12:39:03 AM

GetDataBack NTFS
Recuva

6/1/2009 12:43:56 AM

software is not working

i'm thinking of trying to grab a controller board from a drive with the same model # (is that enough to match?)

anyone had any luck with this...or heard of anyone who has

6/14/2009 11:28:36 AM

+1 for GetDataBack NTFS

if that's not working for you, though, i don't know what else to suggest...i've used a combination of 3 utilities to recover information, but the vast majority of the time GetDataBack NTFS does the job (the other 2 worked in strange circumstances, but i can't remember what they are)

6/14/2009 1:56:52 PM

Quote :

"EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional"

has done a fucking fabulous job for me. short of an all out hardware failure i haven't had anything it couldn't recover

6/14/2009 1:58:50 PM

bump

9/13/2009 6:28:49 PM

Quote :

"i'm thinking of trying to grab a controller board from a drive with the same model # (is that enough to match?)"

holy crap, it actually worked

drive was totally non-responsive before...it would spin up, but never register in any way shape or form on a pc. found a drive with the same model #, swapped the boards and boom it works.

9/13/2009 9:22:47 PM