How can I recover my data from a damaged hard drive?

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Published on 2012-04-01T16:11:41Z Indexed on 2012/04/01 17:34 UTC
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a few days ago when I was working on windows my laptop was beaten on the side where the hard drive is located. As a result, it was damaged and I couldn't access the windows partition. I had to boot the linux one, which is working without any trouble. I have 2 partition formatted with ntfs, the one with windows on it, and the other one intended to store data. I mounted the windows partition from ubuntu and I could see all my files. But when I tried to mount the data partition it was impossible. It threw me an error, it couldn't recognize ntfs partition. I try to copy the damaged disk into an external hard drive using the command:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb conv=noerror,sync

The progress stopped at 60%. I was still unable to mount the data partition.

Now I'm trying to backup my files using an utility called Photorec. The problem is that it is recovering my files in a disorderly way, it is all mixed up and I need my original directory structure, it will become an endless task to organize the files as they were before.

Is there any way I can get my partition back?

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