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Faulty hard drive repair/data recorvery

  • 05-09-2011 8:13pm
    #1
    artvandulet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭


    I have an external drive. After a couple of weeks of use it stopped working. Just clicking. It would come up as a drive letter occasionally but then say inaccessable. I sent it to tech fixers. Theyve had it a week and rang today to say it cant be fixed. No data can be recovered. Im really surprised as i thought it was fixable. So disappointed. Is there anywhere else anyone would recommend I go?
    Or have I lost the data for good?


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  • #2
    wolf moon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭wolf moon


    http://www.datarecovery.ie/

    Might be a bit expensive though.


  • #3
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,285 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    How important/valuable is the data ?

    Don't want to sound smug etc., but learn a lesson - disks do fail, important data should not be trusted to one device alone !


  • #4
    Fluffy88
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    I recently remotely recovered a friends data from a corrupted USB device using DiskDigger.
    There is lots of other applications out there to do the same job, recuva being another.

    But if your drive is clicking then it could be a case that the read head has crashed into the plater and your new hard drive is now infact (to phrase is nicely) gone kaput.

    Generally people would use a Linux utility to grab a disk image of the drive and try to recover the data from that since turning on the drive will most likely just do more damage. I haven't done this myself, but doing a quick search on this forum or google search will give you some applications you can use for that. I don't want to put you off using these tech fixers but I find a lot of them don't have a clue what they are doing :P


  • #5
    artvandulet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭artvandulet


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    How important/valuable is the data ?

    Don't want to sound smug etc., but learn a lesson - disks do fail, important data should not be trusted to one device alone !

    I was trying to be safe! I bought a drive to backup photos from my laptop. So they were in 2 places. A few weeks later I needed to format the laptop so I copied all the latest photos off it onto the drive and then formatted the laptop.
    the next day I went to copy my pics back and the external drive was dead! How **** is that!:mad: Anyway, in future Im going to go with the cloud I think, to be certain.

    Fluffy88 wrote: »
    Generally people would use a Linux utility to grab a disk image of the drive and try to recover the data from that since turning on the drive will most likely just do more damage. I haven't done this myself, but doing a quick search on this forum or google search will give you some applications you can use for that. I don't want to put you off using these tech fixers but I find a lot of them don't have a clue what they are doing :P

    I'll take a look at this cheers.


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