Corrupt 2.5" HDD

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Hey all,

My laptop broke and I need to recover data from the HD, but I am receiving an error when trying to access the data. I purchased a SATA -> USB data transfer cable and hoped this would work. When I try to access the drive it tells me that it needs to be formated. I have tried using recuva data recovery software, but the hard drive is RAW so it cannot read the HDD.

Any ideas on how to recover the data? Any specialists I could send the drive to?

Cheers.

ressem

If it's valuable, unbacked up data; boardsies have recommended www.criticaldata.ie or www.krollontrack.co.uk in the past.

Otherwise if you choose to approach it yourself at the risk of doing damage:
UFS explorer is competent at scanning a damaged filesystem and extracting data from it.

If you have a large amount of free space, like a blank external USB drive and are technically adept, I'd be inclined to try and create an clone of the broken disk, then run UFS on the cloned drive / image file.
A bootable Linux repair cd using gddrescue is useful as it can work around damaged sectors, run multiple passes, access the drive in reverse order, gradually creating the image and a log of the unusable blocks.

Gordon Minard

Hi Xavier:

There is a crowd here in Tallaght in Dublin that I brought a Hard Drive to for data recovery and they were able to recover my stuff.

Service was very good and the guys are sound - just be careful though because Data Recovery can be expensive - very expensive! Now, maybe recovery of data from a phone mightn't be as expensive as Hard Drive Recovery but check first . . .They will quote you first anyway . . .

I shopped around and the prices are, more or less, the same all around so it's really a case of if you are going to pay those kind of rate for data recovery. The UK, believe it or not, was even more expensive . . .

They are called DataRescue - you'll find them on Google . . .

Best of Luck!

Gordon

Capt'n Midnight

photorec is great for pulling files off bare metal when all else fails

if the partition is broken then testdisk is worth trying too

use a linux live CD , it'll sometimes recognise patitions / files that windows can't

Gordon Minard

You probably have sorted this but I finally found the Data Recovery Company that I dealt with - they are www.datarescue.ie

I found them to be very good