Urgent Problem: Hard Drive severely corrupted by Knoppix...

what is the output of

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sudo fdisk -l

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by virtualoverride

(Edit) I just got off the phone with a few recovery places around town...sounds like no one can do hardware recovery; I'll probably have to ship it off somewhere and pay a fortune...dang... One guy suggested the "freezer trick" though--stickin the drive in the freezer overnight. Ever heard of it? I'm headin out right now and someone will probably drop it if I put it in the freezer now, but I'll try that tonight after I get home from work...maybe it'll work by some chance. Just lettin you know; but thanks again!

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I shouldn't even be telling this, might give somebody bad ideas.
I once bought a brand new 2 G HD from a store which had a "return within one week 'else deal with the mfgr" repair policy. So I installed it, worked OK, then I left on vacation. One my return more than a week later, no workee! Eventually I discovered it had a bad connection of some sort inside & needed to be 'jiggled' during the boot up to get it to go. So I ended up with a computer that literally needed a kick start. I'm not actually suggesting thta you give your laptop a firm smack on the side but....