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| Thread ID: 123731 | 2012-03-13 08:35:00 | Very loud grinding notebook hard drive. Unable to recover info... | GR8Metal (14133) | Press F1 |
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| 1264761 | 2012-03-14 06:07:00 | You could try something like ddrescue as this will go over the whole drive and copy off any good data on the first run. On the second run it will try and recover any data in sectors it had trouble with the first time. However if the drive has a mechanical fault then probably won't work. |
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| 1264762 | 2012-03-14 06:57:00 | no as long as you keep em clean... a single bit of dust wont wreck a drive. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1264763 | 2012-03-14 07:31:00 | Dust wont do it any good either. As Renegade mentioned - real recovery experts use a special filtered/clean room environment. If the drive is opened and fiddled with and you dont know what you are doing, then there goes any chances of a good recovery. This may sound harsh - but its the truth - seen way to many people stuff recoverable data: To be completely honest, if you have to ask here on a public forum how to do it, you dont have the skills or knowledge. Keep in mind, any suggestion made here by people regarding drive disassembly - You can bet your boots if it all turns to custard and even more damage is done the people making suggestions wont offer to help pay for a proper recovery. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1264764 | 2012-03-14 08:04:00 | Well yeah ... I clearly stated that these are "last resort" options and if the data was worth spending money to recover to leave the drive alone. The methods offered are clearly destructive, with NO warranty of success whatsoever, but can be fun and educational, and if you are lucky you MAY get some data recovered. If the other alternative is binning it, what is there to loose? |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1264765 | 2012-03-14 08:06:00 | Yeah. I or any pther sane person wouldnt fiddile with a drive that has important data on it. All i hve or have ever had is old school stuff and games. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1264766 | 2012-03-15 08:32:00 | Thanks for all your posts people. Well the verdict is....forensic time! It's apparent that the drive has a mechanical fault and that's where I'll leave it. +1 for Speedy's support. Will advise friend to part with at least $1000+ cost for recovery....if the data (mostly images) are that important to them, they'll pay. Cheers :thumbs: |
GR8Metal (14133) | ||
| 1264767 | 2012-03-15 08:40:00 | Thats the key words- how important is the data - many people when they find out the cost all of a sudden its no so important after all. I remember a several years back a customers drive totally toasted, fried circuit board and stuffed internals - I got a quote from a place in Auckland, and I thought :eek: gulp-- I told him the quote - $2000 approx -- His reply-- Is that all -- It had all his work data from over the last 5 years he said - no backups. |
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