Hard drive failure help

Dear group,

I have a hard drive failure. It is a Toshiba 60GB laptop hard drive
with a single NTFS partition.
Mac can recognize the partition and read the directories, but has
difficulty getting files out of it.
We tried a hard disc copy, but the copy halted after finishing about
58 GB.
Now both the old drive and the new drive seem to miss directory
information.

Could anyone estimate how bad the hard drive is and at the best how
many files are recoverable?
Is it worthwhile to send this to a professional data recovery service?

Thanks in advance,

CZ

On Aug 22, 7:55 pm, wrote:
> Dear group,
>
> I have a hard drive failure. It is a Toshiba 60GB laptop hard drive
> with a single NTFS partition.
> Mac can recognize the partition and read the directories, but has
> difficulty getting files out of it.
> We tried a hard disc copy, but the copy halted after finishing about
> 58 GB.
> Now both the old drive and the new drive seem to miss directory
> information.
>
> Could anyone estimate how bad the hard drive is and at the best how
> many files are recoverable?
> Is it worthwhile to send this to a professional data recovery service?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> CZ

CZ, I used these, all take time but work.
O&O Disk Recovery (size:3,191kb)
Active File Recovery v7.1.901 (size:3mb)
RecoverMyFiles (size:4,770kb)
Post here if you want one. (make sure your e-mail addy is active)
The recovery process is not rapid & you need space, obviously, to copy
to.