Hi there . I ' m sorry to hear about the issues you ' re having , I know how unpleasant such a thing could be . In order to gain access to the content stored on it you can boot up with Linux LiveCD and see if you ' ll be able to gain access to the stored information . You can find more information and guide in the KB article on how to do so if you want . Hopefully this will do the job , but in case it doesn ' t then IMO your best option will be to consult with a data recovery company 33 yzSJ and see if the specialists there can recover the information . Hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions you may have . <| sep |> Don ' t know why I am telling this story here , but here it is . When I was 18 I was in a bad relationship . I got pregnant , and found out three months later that something was not right . They did not know what , but the baby hadn ' t grown at all since my appointment the previous month there was still a very very faint heartbeat . Aside from being small it was very clear and obvious that something was wrong with the development as things just didn ' t look how they should for that stage . I decided to have an abortion . When I went to planned parenthood they kept checking and making sure that it was something I wanted to do , something I was choosing to do on my own etc . it was an incredibly hard decision , but not because I was on the fence . I knew that as an 18 year old who was now not with the father who himself had gotten heavily into drugs , I would not be able to care for a child with any substantial handicap . It would not be fair for that child to come into the world and live the only life I could provide it . The reason it was a hard decision , is because I knew that no matter what my family would never support me in doing it . So I had an abortion , and told my family I miscarried . It has now been more than 11 years and I can honestly say it ' s the best thing I could have done . I ' m married , I have three amazing children , and my ex is still the scum of the earth . No one in my family knows what I did , I guess it feels like a relief to finally put it all into words . Edit I just wanted to say thank you for all the amazing and supportive comments I have received . I would have never expected that much kindness from strangers . Some have brought up the fact that I could have adopted . I didn ' t add this in to my post because it was already much longer than I planned and I didn ' t want people to thinkI was grasping at straws to justify it . When I say things didn ' t look right , the baby was noticeably deformed . Paired with the fact that at 12 weeks it was measuring at 8 weeks did not bode well at all . We can ' t even be certain the baby would have made it to term on its own , but that ' s besides the point . My family would have never allowed me to have the baby adopted . Yes obviously it would have been my decision to make , but it would have destroyed my entire family . If you believe in god and believe that god is against what I have done , than you also believe that he has forgiven me for it , I am not a religious person anymore but I do know that judging someone for their actions is something god would be against as well .