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HDD Partition Corrupted

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My mother booted up her laptop today to find that it was booting to its recovery partition instead of Windows. I had a look at it and it turns out that the main Windows partition (drive D:\) is corrupted, I explained to her that the hard drive is corrupted and could have been caused by her turning the laptop off when Windows is updating.

I'm sorry to say that her turning the laptop off forcefully when Windows was updating is the most likely cause; both my parents sometimes turn my own computer off 'to save energy' (real annoying, but it's never done much damage) and they've never really got the grasp that you cannot just forcefully turn a computer off and expect no problems to occur.

The lost HDD partition had a large album of family photos, as well as documents related to my mothers' business and other personal documents.
I have started to run chkdsk on the partition via my Windows 7 recovery disk, and I'm worried because when I last checked it said stuff like 'Deleting invalid file entry' for:
  • $Recycle_Bin
  • pagefile.sys
  • hiberfile.sys
  • config.ini

..which of cause are critical Windows files, and it could mean that the data is permanently lost.


How likely is a recovery of the data with chkdsk, and if it's not likely to recover, would a professional file recovery company be able to recover the data?
Are there any programs that I can install on my own computer (and attach the HDD from my mothers' laptop) which could do as well as any professional file recovery company?


Things I've already done:
  • Checked the drive health using Parted Magic
  • Verified that the partition is corrupted
  • Attempted to recover the partition via Parted Magic

The drive health is excellent with no errors (also, drive 'power on hours' are at 1804) and the missing partition shows up as an empty NTFS drive with only an 'intel' folder inside (a folder that was on the laptop originally, perhaps a hopeful sign).

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