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| Thread ID: 80251 | 2007-06-17 00:32:00 | Help! - complete drive failure... | NZMacka (11756) | Press F1 |
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| 559804 | 2007-06-17 00:32:00 | Morning guys, I have a regular back up of my main PC to a NAS on my home network, so most of my data from my main PC is secure. However, last night I downloaded a stack of digital camera pics to my main PC (P4 2.8Ghz 1G RAM 160GB HDD) and went to bed. This is/was a relaible machine, but sometime overnight the computer locked up, so this morning I restarted the machine. Herein lies the problem, the PC will now not boot at all, the drive cannot be seen by the bios and only the floppy and CDROM drives are showing in the boot screen... I took the drive out and installed it in another PC, still no joy... looks like the drive is toasted...when connected to the mobo/psu, there is not even any sense of movement or vibration of the drive spinning. Its as if the drive has just failed completley. Anyone have experience with a similar fault? The wife really wants the pictures (there of our newborn twins) so I'd appreciate any advice. I may look at getting the data professionally recovered, so if anyone knows of a reputable firm that does this sort of work in the Wellington region please let me know. Appreciate any help or advice guys :) cheers!:badpc: |
NZMacka (11756) | ||
| 559805 | 2007-06-17 01:00:00 | drives are just machinery and certainly can catastrophically fail........without warning........be aware that in the even that the drive wont even spin up any data recovery will run you into the hundreds if not a couple of thousand dollars...... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 559806 | 2007-06-17 01:04:00 | Where did you download the pics from? Can you download again once the HHD is sorted? | Bryan (147) | ||
| 559807 | 2007-06-17 01:25:00 | If you deleted the photos off the digital camera memory card after downloading to the computer, they can sometimes still be recovered off the memory card. Have a search of the forum as this topic has been discussed before and one or two programs were recommended as doing the best job. Good luck. :) |
Jen (38) | ||
| 559808 | 2007-06-17 02:57:00 | As Jen says, even if you have deleted the images from the card you can recover them. {DONT TAKE ANY MORE PICS ON THAT CARD YET} There is plenty of software out there to recover lost images from camera cards. I'm using an open source one called Flashback ( for linux ) which works quite well. I'm sure there must be some for windows too. |
racepics (7812) | ||
| 559809 | 2007-06-17 03:32:00 | I use GetDataBack for all my data recovery (where appropriate), with excellent results. It works perfectly for camera cards. You need something that will open the card as a drive (most cameras work this way, if this is the case just plug the camera in as you would normally). It costs about $120NZ but you'll be glad you have it if you ever do something silly - like reinstall Windows and realise you left your e-mails behind .... Firstly though, plug a different power connecter into the hard drive. It might just be a dodgy old plug :p |
george12 (7) | ||
| 559810 | 2007-06-17 04:07:00 | Gidday guys, thanks for the comments. OK, I have still got the SD card from the camera, so thats OK. But.... it turns out that the backups have not got everything from he failed HDD :horrified :horrified :horrified Pretty unhappy about this as we have 80% of what we want, but there are some pictures and other data that we would really like to recover from the HDD. I'll definately be looking at a more thorough data back up in future (especially photos - this is what we don't have a full back up of) Is it true that recovery from the failed drive will cost thousands? I can't afford thousands...hundreds maybe!! The drive itself is a Maxtor and less than 2 years old, my others are all Seagates... I won't buy a Maxtor again now! Has anyone had any luck in recovering data from a drive that won't power up? |
NZMacka (11756) | ||
| 559811 | 2007-06-17 04:38:00 | I had a similar drive failure. Fortunately I knew a S**t hot bloke across the street who sorted it for us. His name is Metla. A big bear of a bloke. A big softy by nature. PJ:thumbs: | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 559812 | 2007-06-17 04:43:00 | I have a computer that regularly crashes[every crash appears terminal], so unplug all the external cables[power etc], give it time and it comes right. | mack (10410) | ||
| 559813 | 2007-06-17 05:40:00 | Well if all the cables are properly plugged in and it does not work on another PC then chances are it is gone . . . Probably the only real way to get the data is professionally which is thousands . . . my Mum had to get it done once :stare: Maxtor are now owned by Seagate :p But I agree, Seagate do seem to be the best in reliability that I have had . . . on the latest 7200 . 10s they say there is a 0 . 34% per year fail rate for these :D |
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