HDD Recovery HELP!!

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ockron

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#18798 24-Jan-2008 08:15

Hi all.

The HDD on my laptop packed up, and yes, despite all the warning I did not back it up. (Sorry mom)
I need to recover some of the data on the HDD.

Any ideas will be welcomed!

Spyware

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#106455 24-Jan-2008 08:22

Recovery services are $1000's dollars so you are most likely out of luck unless the drive just has bad sectors. Remove drive from laptop, purchase 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapter cable and connect to desltop. If desktop detects it then copy off what you want.

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ockron

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Geek

#106458 24-Jan-2008 08:45

I think the drive is dead ... It only makes a "clunk" sound when it's turned on.

pwaddles

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#107368 29-Jan-2008 12:17

sounds like its just failing to spin up. Used to happen quite often (like 10 years ago (with 5 years old pc's)), we remedied this problem by jerking the harddisk in a clockwise motion to encourage it to spin, worked more often than not. This was in desktop machines however. I wouldnt recommend doing this with your entire laptop, instead of paying $1,000's for data recovery, spend $50 on a 2.5inch hard disk enclosure, put your disk in it, then you can give this a try. No guarantees it'll work as technology has no doubt changed so much, but hey desperate times call for desperate measures aye.

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