Harddrive data recovery

[Drscratchnsniff]

Well i just tried Ubuntu
I can't get Ubuntu loaded while i have the bad HDD installed.
I wish i knew how i could do a print screen while it was trying to load. Since i dont know if that is possible i will try to type what i see when its trying to load.
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XXX.XXXXXX ata.01: status {drdy err}
XXX.XXXXXX ata.01: ERROR {UNC}
XXX.XXXXXX ata.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
XXX.XXXXXX ata.01: BMDMA stat 0x65
XXX.XXXXXX ata.01:cmd 25/00:02:73:a6:d2/00:00:11:00:00/f0 tag 0 dma 1024 i
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The xxx.xxxxxx represent #'s..It just keeps scrolling this then a long pause and finally a blank screen. If i hit Enter at the blank screen i go back to a cmd prompt type screen.

I am guessing that these are sectors being checked and they are failing? just guessing :P
Any suggestions?

Try burning puppy linux

www.puppylinux.org


It's only 94 mb

Includes gparted and all you need to mount and view/copy from your disks

Think i'll give this a try now