They would have been recoverable with the right tools I am reasonably sure. I can't remember what I used when I had a HD failure (was on windows back then) but it pulled the entire file tree back out the void. If you make a bootable USB stick with Linux on it you can recover files when your computer won't even boot anymore without removing the hard drive.
They would have been recoverable with the right tools I am reasonably sure. I can't remember what I used when I had a HD failure (was on windows back then) but it pulled the entire file tree back out the void. If you make a bootable USB stick with Linux on it you can recover files when your computer won't even boot anymore without removing the hard drive.