I love speed :-P
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HELP
My hard drive has just died, when I tried to power the computer up it made a ticking noise and bios couldn’t find a hdd, I have some files on there
which I need to get back what is the best method to get it back or has anyone got some data recovery stuff or who is the best company who will get the
information back
Thanks Phil
Don't Steal
The Government doesn’t like the competition
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scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 23/10/05 at 09:17 AM |
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You could try putting it into another PC as a second drive and reading the files off it that way. Sometimes even though a drive won't boot you
can still get the data off it
Pete
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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I love speed :-P
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| posted on 23/10/05 at 09:19 AM |
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tried that it made lots of noises and then the computer loaded but the old hdd wasnt there
Don't Steal
The Government doesn’t like the competition
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flak monkey
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| posted on 23/10/05 at 09:22 AM |
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Send it to a company who will charge you about £300 to get the files off....
If the motor has died in the drive or the bearings have siezed then there is no way of getting the files off, its just life....
Should have kept a backup 
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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I love speed :-P
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| posted on 23/10/05 at 09:24 AM |
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bollox
Don't Steal
The Government doesn’t like the competition
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Gav
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Sounds like a mechanical failure then a company used to work for used to use a data recovery company for damaged HD's, unfortunaltly i
cannot remember the name of said company.
However i do remember that they took the disk platers out and put them in another of the same model and they wernt cheap, over £100 iirc.
SO it might be worth trying the same thing if you have a spare HD of the same type that you dont mind possibly of being FUBAR'd
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Peteff
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| posted on 23/10/05 at 09:25 AM |
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If bios can't detect it you are up the swanny for a diy solution. If the data is really valuable to you there are data recovery companies on
the net but recovery is expensive, so much per meg usually and would probably buy you several new hard drives. Just google.co.uk " hard drive
data recovery " and use the UK search.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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ReMan
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| posted on 23/10/05 at 09:43 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Gav
Sounds like a mechanical failure then a company used to work for used to use a data recovery company for damaged HD's, unfortunaltly i
cannot remember the name of said company.
However i do remember that they took the disk platers out and put them in another of the same model and they wernt cheap, over £100 iirc.
SO it might be worth trying the same thing if you have a spare HD of the same type that you dont mind possibly of being FUBAR'd
This can definatly work, i've done this myself more than once. Get a cheap 2nd hand drive the same and swap the bits. . Its good enough to get
your data off, not for long term use. A bit like bike engines, they never sound the same when they've been apart!
Sunday is computer fair day
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viatron
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| posted on 23/10/05 at 11:21 AM |
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you can get any data rcovered its just a matter of how much you want to pay...The replacement drive trick is an option but it needs to be indentical,
right down to the ROM Version or it wont work, it is also very difficult to do unless you have done it before and the drive normally only lasts a
short while. An old trick is to seal the drive in mucho layers of plastic and then freeze it for an hour or so, sometimes it frees things off enough
to get access for maybe 20 minutes or so.
Proffesional Dr is very very expensive:
www.ontrack.co.uk
and
www.vogon.co.uk
are the best known UK companies but be prepared to pay £350 and upwards
Mac
Oh and if you open it up they probably wont even agree to look at it.
[Edited on 23-10-2005 by viatron]
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Strolls
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| posted on 23/10/05 at 12:38 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scoobyis2cool
You could try putting it into another PC as a second drive and reading the files off it that way.
If the data's really important then don't even try this! Send the drive off immediately to a specialist.
I recently used http://www.retrodata.co.uk/ - it's not a big company, just a little guy with a good reputation & he was very
helpful. He charged about £100 for his "private individuals and students" standard service and managed to get everything off a completely
dead drive - he even found several gigs of deleted files on there.
Stroller.
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JoelP
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| posted on 23/10/05 at 12:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Strolls
he even found several gigs of deleted files on there.
Stroller.
enough to get you arrested? 
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steve_gus
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| posted on 23/10/05 at 03:25 PM |
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eons ago when i had my first hdd failure, it was cos the drive didnt spin up. The service co recommended that i give it a sharp tap with the handle
end of a screwdriver. It started up fine! Beware whacking drives, cos it can cause a head crash.... but then yours is shagged, so what is there to
lose. (unless you want to go the 350 quid route)
Before you try the above, just check that the cables are OK and that the power lead is properly in the drive - check by swapping cables.
atb
steve
[Edited on 23/10/05 by steve_gus]
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