hard drive recovery

[fearlesss]

I have a hard drive that at became corupt. I have since replaced said hard drive. but there some items that I would like off of it. is it possible to recovery them?

[redsail]

Assuming the drive is not corrupt beyond recognition you should be able to try and get your data. Just install the old drive into your computer as a slave to the new one (assuming you know what this means). Once you boot into windows it should just be another drive I think. its been a while since I've done that so I might be a little bit off.

Another solution is to get a hard drive enclosure with a USB or firewire output and you can use the corrupt drive like an external HD.

[old_school_soul]

It depends if the hard drive is physically corrupt, or the filesystem is corrupt. You'll know that the drive is physically broken if you hear clicking noises (like a "click click click") when you try to access the files. In that case, you're fucked unless you want to spend around $1000 to get the data recovered.

Or, if it is just the filesystem that is corrupt, do as the previous poster said.

Keep in mind you should always have backups.. I'd recommend getting an external hard drive and keeping weekly backups of your main drive.

[blueyes]

Drive recovery can be costly, but isn't necessarily - be sure that you know what you're getting. Some services will charge an evaluation fee, some won't - but you'll get dinged for the shipping costs for a free evaluation. Some services won't charge you unless they can recover the data, but they tend to be THE high end and they are pricey.

If you're dead-set on recovery, shop around and avoid any of the big box store services like the plague. You'll get no end of grief and they do sloppy sloppy work.

[meatwad]

We charge $80/hr. for data recovery on corrupted file systems and minor physically damaged hard drives. Any major physical damage and you're probably looking $250 just for the place to look at the drive and tell you if they can do the work.

[fearlesss]

It depends if the hard drive is physically corrupt, or the filesystem is corrupt. You'll know that the drive is physically broken if you hear clicking noises (like a "click click click") when you try to access the files. In that case, you're fucked unless you want to spend around $1000 to get the data recovered.

Or, if it is just the filesystem that is corrupt, do as the previous poster said.

Keep in mind you should always have backups.. I'd recommend getting an external hard drive and keeping weekly backups of your main drive.


Naa, no sounds. just won't boot up. Well, it does then it gives me the blue window of death once it gets to the start windows xp.

It's not my hard drive. It's the g.f. I had an extra HD so I put it in her's and. I just want to see if I can pull anything off of it for her. if not then oh well.

[meatwad]

If it's just got a BSOD, then you can probably hook it up on the secondary IDE or SATA channel and transfer the files over.

[Xander]

meat, does the freezer technique actually work?

[meatwad]

meat, does the freezer technique actually work?

Lol. Sometimes it does. Where did you hear about that?

[old_school_soul]

If it's just got a BSOD, then you can probably hook it up on the secondary IDE or SATA channel and transfer the files over.

Before you copy files over, I would scan the drive for viruses and trojans, which may be causing the BSOD in the first place.

[meatwad]

Before you copy files over, I would scan the drive for viruses and trojans, which may be causing the BSOD in the first place.

Excellent point.

[fearlesss]

If it's just got a BSOD, then you can probably hook it up on the secondary IDE or SATA channel and transfer the files over.



I actually have an external SATA/IDE combo enclosure to usb. I hook it up and new hardware says it found disk drive but under my computer the does not have under HDD or removeable. I think it's dead dead.

[Xander]

Lol. Sometimes it does. Where did you hear about that?
A friend's HD crashed, and we tried it, but it only lasted a minute or so, so I figured it was a geeky urban legend. :p

[meatwad]

A friend's HD crashed, and we tried it, but it only lasted a minute or so, so I figured it was a geeky urban legend. :p

Nope, though you're right about it being temporary. If the drive stops functioning because of a misaligned read head or head arm, the cold can make the metal shift just enough that in some cases the drive becomes readable again. Usually it will just fall back to shit again, but you can sometimes run it long enough to recover some of the data.

[fearlesss]

Lol. Sometimes it does. Where did you hear about that?


i take this is where you just put the thing in freezer for a couple hours?

i never heard of it?

[meatwad]

i take this is where you just put the thing in freezer for a couple hours?

i never heard of it?

Yeah. I usually wrap them up in an anti-static bag to try to reduce the amount of condensation first.

[Denzel]

To recover the data from logical crash you can use Stellar Phoenix Windows Data recovery software (http://www.stellarinfo.com). It will recover your data lost due to software malfunction, file directory deletion or due to system format.
Download the demo version from http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-recovery.htm
Make your infected hard drive as slave, run the software on the master drive and start the scanning. If the demo shows you the recovered data then get the full version to save the data.

[Bocheezu]

Cool, thread necromancy.

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