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Data recovery off a hard drive

  • 18-12-2011 10:20am
    #1
    counterlock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys,

    I'm hoping someone may be able to help me with this one. My recent bad luck run with electronics is continuing (first a laptop, then a phone, now this).

    My seagate 1TB hard drive packed in yesterday, it spins up but is not detected. After connecting and disconnecting a few times, I got a driver error, saying it needs to be formatted to be read.

    Its my primary back up, so I'd be sickened to lose it :( When I get back to work I'm going to get it out of the enclosure and try it in another one. Is there anything else I can try to get the data off?


Comments

  • #2
    karl bracken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭karl bracken


    give this a shot it may be able to see the drive depending whats wrong with it

    http://download.cnet.com/Recuva/3000-2242_4-10753287.html


  • #3
    PapaSierra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭PapaSierra


    Try Parted Magic - Linux Live CD. It has many useful tools including data recovery programs. It's very easy to use - you simply download a CD image file and burn it to a black CD, then boot computer from that CD straight into a nice user-friendly GUI. One of the best tools on that CD is 'safecopy', very simple but powerfull data recovery program (designed mainly to recover data from hard drives with Bad Blocks).

    Taking a drive out of enclosure and connecting it directly to PC SATA controller is worth trying.

    Good luck!


  • #4
    counterlock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭counterlock


    Thanks a million for your help guys. Looks like the enclosure was done of it. I got all my data off it and its going to be sent back to Seagate for a repair :)


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