What are my options for a disk with what seems to be a corrupted filesystem?
- by CT
I have a friend with an old Dell that will not boot into Windows.
It has an IDE drive. It spins up. I have an IDE to USB device. I've attached the drive via that device to a working laptop. The drive does not mount. If I go into Disk Management I can see the drive but it will not initalize, says "Drive not ready."
I've also booted into a linux live cd to see if the drive mounts, it does not.
I am just trying to recover some pictures from the drive. The data is not important enough to send to a professional. The issue is more of a curosity on how to recover data if and when these situations would occur in the future.