Any hard drive experts?
Discussion
I need to get the photos off my old drive, which died last year in my laptop. It doesn't spin up properly, and taking it to a local PC shop didn't work. I am sure someone has mentioned you can swap out PCBs etc potentially and put the old platters in. Any ideas?
I know this is likely to be expensive, and that's OK.
Ideally I'm looking for some ideas on what I can do with it, some recommendations of where to take/send it, and ideally somewhere that won't charge if they can't recover anything.
I know this is likely to be expensive, and that's OK.
Ideally I'm looking for some ideas on what I can do with it, some recommendations of where to take/send it, and ideally somewhere that won't charge if they can't recover anything.
Havn't used these myself but a search for hard drive data reclaim returned
http://www.rapid-data.net/ £97.00
http://www.fields-data-recovery.co.uk/?gclid=CI-im...
HTH
If you can get the drive spinning, this programme is very effective for retrieving data:
http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm
It sounds slightly crazy, but if you hold the hard drive horizontally and make a 'frisbee throwing' motion you should be able to get it to spin. I did this with a 500gig drive that was no longer recognised by windows. As soon as it started moving the above software identified it and I was able to copy 100% of the data onto a new drive.
Worth a try.
http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm
It sounds slightly crazy, but if you hold the hard drive horizontally and make a 'frisbee throwing' motion you should be able to get it to spin. I did this with a 500gig drive that was no longer recognised by windows. As soon as it started moving the above software identified it and I was able to copy 100% of the data onto a new drive.
Worth a try.
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