Originally Posted by
worldwidedreamer
I'm a big fan of
SpinRite. It has saved more than one hard drive for me. Might work for you if there is data still valuable on the disk.
Originally Posted by from SpinRite website
The simple rule of thumb is that if drives can work and be recognized under DOS, perhaps with the addition of extra device drivers, they should be "seen" and usable by SpinRite
I've tried booting to command prompt under a Windows boot USD key, and DOS can't see the C:drive - it only sees the X: boot drive...
Have ordered a 256MB Crucial drive, I am going to swap that into this Samsung (which still has a more or less functioning touchpad) and swap the 128MB original drive from this into the bricked laptop, and see what happens. I'll report back next week sometime.