[USER=53119]@RobTheSwede[/USER]
I feel you. For what it's worth, just random chance; there are drives we've got that are chugging along fine for decades, drives that just fail. I refuse to use SSDs, for example, because every single one I've had or come into contact with has failed and been entirely unrecoverable within a year. I know, logically, that's just luck, but it sure does sting. Anyway, here's my checklist of what to do:
- If possible, stop using the drives. Shackle them a different OS that's working, and hand-copy everything you can manage to save.
- As much as I hate using any sort of third-party service, if you can possibly take the drives into a shop, they 'might' have tools and skills you don't. I say might, because I'd be willing to bet the answer is no. It's still worth a try if you have the time and cash.
- After getting what you can from the above steps, unseat the drives and store them properly. I'll see what other data recovery software I can recommend, there was one suite that was amazingly useful that I cannot remember the name of. If I can recall it and it's not lost software, I'll add it here. I bring it up because I've had multiple drives I've been told are 'unrecoverable' and managed to get some of the data off of.
Sorry for your loss. Computers are exhausting.
