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Hard drive recovery suggestions??

  • 24-07-2005 4:39pm
    #1
    eoinok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 75 ✭✭


    Drop Laptop, hard drive knackered, clicking sound etc coming out of it.

    Not worried about anything on it, except my collection of photographs goign back for years of which I have no backups!!!!

    All I am interested in saving is the /photo's folder. It is a 40GB 2 1/2 inch drive formatted using NTFS, runing windows XP.

    Anyone suggets a HD drive recovery crowd???
    Been looking briefly on the NET but thery all seem to cost an arm agus a leg!!!


Comments

  • #2
    Endurance Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Endurance Man


    Yup, its an expensive trade, but your only option.


  • #3
    Sgtshaft
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭Sgtshaft


    Put your drive in your freezer compartment of your fridge for an hour and try it then, I am not joking it does work at times. I once recovered data on a mates drive using this method.


  • #4
    tech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,860 ✭✭✭tech


    I work in IT and have sent a few hdd off to http://www.cbltech.co.uk/
    i ve had some sucesses from this + they will tell you what they can get off the drive and if your not happy with the contents or list they provide you can get the disk shipped back with no fee

    Well worth shipping the hdd over to the uk for then to have a look at it


  • #5
    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭RicardoSmith


    Try the freezer thing. But clicking noises is usually terminal. How much are those photos worth to you? If you can't afford it now, maybe put it aside till you can.

    But be aware that trying to recover the data yourself, might actually destroy any data that on it. So don't muck around with stuff you find on the web unless you're definately not going to send it to a professional. If you've nothing to lose, then try. We had one guy at work who had 7 years of work mangled with no backups. We recovered some of it, with some software but a lot was lost.


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