Does anyone know someone who could recover the data at reasonable cost from my very ill hard drive. thanks
Darton Pete that posts on here i took my knackered laptop into his shop in Darton and they recovered it for a tenner. It's near the train station called Wadells
Try installing another hard drive with the operating system on, then attache the defective one as a slave as i take it its a boot drive at the moment, you may and that is a may just be able to access the drive once windows is running.