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Thread ID: 135032 2013-09-16 17:16:00 it seems my ageday is occuring Mirddes (10) PC World Chat
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1353655 2013-09-16 17:16:00 finished escaping at 4:51

need a glimmer of hope

has boxen of retired harddrives, some clicked before retirement.

whats the best methodology o recovering data from 20 10-15 year old drives


ILL BE HERE ALL WEEK
Mirddes (10)
1353656 2013-09-16 19:29:00 Do you have an external IDE drive enclosure? Jen (38)
1353657 2013-09-16 21:56:00 Depends what it's worth to you. There are external USB docks you can get that you just slide the drive into, available in both SATA and PATA versions or this combo unit www.pp.co.nz Any that have emitted the death click are probably beyond anytrhing short of expensive expert data retrieval. dugimodo (138)
1353658 2013-09-16 22:33:00 You should be able to connect your old hard drive to the cable that connects your present hard drive to the mother board. There will be at least one spare hard drive connection on that cable.

Todays PCs are set up for plug and play and so you should not have to do anything else but connect it to the cable, then go to My Computer where you should be able to access the old hard drive. Not too difficult.
Roscoe (6288)
1353659 2013-09-16 22:56:00 finished escaping at 4:51

has boxen of retired harddrives, some clicked before retirement.


Its riddles from Mirddles :)
ageday is occuring ?
????

some clicked before retirement ??
if the HD are clicking/clunking etc, it will very VERY difficult to recover any data.

Have a look here, this guy shows how to do hardware level datarecovery
myharddrivedied.com

Else just download data recovery software & give that a go. Just plug the old HD in as a 2nd HD on the PC
1101 (13337)
1353660 2013-09-16 23:09:00 one question, are these your Hard drives with YOUR DATA
or are you trying to recover data from a bunch of hard drives you were given/have found ?

ageday=birthday ??
1101 (13337)
1353661 2013-09-17 01:12:00 how does one become an expensive data retrieval expert? Mirddes (10)
1353662 2013-09-17 02:30:00 how does one become an expensive data retrieval expert?

Go and learn how to do it, which would also involve access to cleanrooms, the knowledge of things like how to replace a head stack, how to do surface-mount rework on circuit boards.. etc...

Specialist (and expensive) tools needed and skills, that's why data recovery costs A LOT.
Agent_24 (57)
1353663 2013-09-17 04:34:00 Go and learn how to do it

where?



AGEDAY MEANS CHANGES
Mirddes (10)
1353664 2013-09-17 04:52:00 where?


If you fly to USA, there are companies that will sell you everything you need & train you
It will cost alot of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

:thumbs:

Or just start with the link I gave you.
He has free vids showing you how to do some basic stuff with basic cheap tools, like head swaps.
1101 (13337)
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