Urgent Help Required Please.

[Big Al.]

He's the scenario, I have a stand alone laser machine.

The hard drive has just gone "Tit's Up" and I need to see if the information on the hard drive can be recovered.

Can any body suggest a company that I could contact?

Any suggestions would be grateful peeps!

>> Edited by Big Al. on Friday 13th May 08:54

[meeja]

Firstly, what are you trying to recover? The machine's OS or documents that have been sent to it?

If it is the former, what is the make and model of machine, as it may be easier to get an HDD of an identical machine cloned?

Unless I am reading your initial question completely wrong.....

[CanAm-TT]

When you say "Tit's up" what do you exactly mean?

Have you thought of attaching another hard drive as a master and then this one as a slave? You may be able to see the files at least, as I presume this is what you need to get into

[[k]ar|]

I suppose at a pinch you could try hooking the HDD from the laser machine up to a PC as a non-booting slave drive. Assuming the HDD conforms to the MS file system you might be able to get a reading off it (depending on the nature of the fault, of course). You could then try some of the ususal disk repair utilities or use something like Ghost to clone the drive from another (working) machine.

HTH

[k]

[Big Al.]

OK guy's thanks for the replies.

When I say tits up I think the hard drive is refusing to function, it's dead mechanically.

It lives in a very dust laden environment!

What I need to do is recover the information from the drive and put it on a new drive.

Does that make sense?

Sorry to be a bit of a numpty but it's not really an area I know a great deal about.

[Plotloss]

If its mechanically dead the only option is to get someone like Vogon (www.vogon.co.uk) to split the platters off the disk and spin them up on one of their machines.

They have daily collections in pick up points nationwide but be aware this is not in any way a cheap service.

[Big Al.]

Thanks Matt, that's what I'm after.

I'll give them a bell.