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| Thread ID: 71629 | 2006-08-11 07:57:00 | Tutorial to fix a dead hard drive | mejobloggs (264) | Press F1 |
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| 477786 | 2006-08-12 03:24:00 | Oops, sorry pctek. Data recovery is what my cousin wants. But yeah, when he rang up, he just said 'can you fix it', so I had that stuck in my head. I have recovered data off four hard drives so far for other people. If the hard drive controller is dead then it means taking the drive apart which I am not prepared to do here. Datarecovery do a good job but they would have to source a new controller and fit same. It is why it is expensive. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 477787 | 2006-08-12 09:25:00 | I installed a new drive & installed the operating system ect. Set the faulty drive to slave, sealed it up in a plastic bag & stuck it in the freezer for a couple of hours. Have the necessary cables hanging out the side of your comp box & with the comp switched off, connect the drive up & boot up, if you're lucky it'll load up as a slave drive & you can get some files off it. I found it's worked a couple of times & only for about 15 mins & the heat gets to it & it dies again. Its worth a go anyway The other success I had was using knoppix, it could see the drives & access them. It's worth having a go but there's no guarantees |
Phil B (648) | ||
| 477788 | 2006-08-12 09:46:00 | Ok, thanks for the advice guys. I think we will be looking at trying to recover the data ourselves. Grrr, I really wish I could find that original article I talked about. I think I will try what Phil suggested, but I have an external hdd case, so I will use that. About the freezing. I have heard that is really bad for the hdd, and you can do worse damage to your data? But then a lady at work had her hdd die, and she recovered the data by freezing it as well, so I might give it a shot. |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 477789 | 2006-08-17 22:42:00 | I also read the article you are talking about but I can't find it now. Can you send me a list of your tech news rss feeds? I will compare with mine, and hunt around the matching sites. | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 477790 | 2006-08-17 22:49:00 | Eeep, and thinking of this, I havn't backed up for a year! Meh, it's never going to happen to me ;) | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 477791 | 2006-08-18 02:37:00 | I read it on Digg, or Daily Rotation, I think. Sorry. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 477792 | 2006-08-21 13:52:00 | [edit: spam removed] | recoveryguru (10963) | ||
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