unable to open drive

Hello,

I have a crashed hard drive from a laptap. The laptop would not boot returning unable to read drive. I took out the drive and hook it up to a cms drive box and connected it to another computer. The new computer would assign a drive letter, but would not read the drive.

I downloaded the recurva software, installed, and opened it. The software shows the assigned drive letter, however, when proceeding to select that drive, the software returns: Unable to open drive".

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

first guess is the drive has died at the physical level.

if available, try connecting it to a Linux PC as I have had some success with Linux reading drives that Windows couldn't.

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