Free disk recovery tool
A friend at work had a problem because his external hard disk was not being recognised by his computer. He tried all the usual big name recovery programs with no success. Then he came acrossTestDisk a free open source disk recovery tool and it did the trick.
"TestDisk is a powerful data recovery utility! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table)."
It rocks! My friend is delighted!
Try it if you have problems with a hard disk not booting. It is a bit 'techy' to use, but but maybe a techy friend can help you out if you feel daunted.
