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Dead Hard Drive?
Just been reading Mike Grants post about disappearing technology…..an I hope this may help some of you Late last year my laptop fell, resulting in a dead hard drive, I tried everything to access the data( and I mean everything, even freezing it in the freezer!) I had almost given up on it when I discovered this page http://www.help2go.com/Tutorials/Comput … puter.html and followed the instructions to the letter. Inserted the disc with Knoppix burned on to it and BINGO….was able to access the dead drive and copy the files across to an external drive. May not help everyone affected but it is worth a try. I have just finished rescuing all my music gathered over three years….I am as happy as a pig in the proverbial!! 😀
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that does look good… might have to test that software out
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good find Harry. 🙂
Shame you managed to rescue your music though …….. would have thought it might be a relief to lose Bjork!!!!!!!! 😮 😉 -
or that other music festival website harry has 😉
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quote Marcella:good find Harry. 🙂
Shame you managed to rescue your music though …….. would have thought it might be a relief to lose Bjork!!!!!!!! 😮 😉To each his own!! (hot) (hot)
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cool, i have 2 dead drives here with around 4yrs of the kids growing up still stuck on them, will have to take a look at that!
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hi all, this has been an issue for me for some time….
can anyone advise on how to retrieve info from a drive that will not "fire up".
we have a drive that was used as an external drive to back up onto, however came to back up one day and the drive just wont work, the hard drive doesnt seem to spin/ activate.
any ideas how we can get the files off of it?
any help or advice would be appreciated.
cheers
stephen -
Stephen, in your case its a harddrive rebuild by a specialist. Needs to have the same model and then they will transfer the innards to it in a clean room situation.
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Have an external drive here as well that I haven’t had time to try but I would be confident the Knoppix software will retrieve it, it sees any drive connected to the computer. Worth a go, software takes a good while to download.
BTW, the software seems to default to German, I found that when you are asked to boot it, if you type ‘knoppix lang=US it will boot in english. -
Stephan have you removed the drive from it’s case?
You say that it’s an external drive just wondered if you have only tried connecting it as USB or whatever interface it is.
Tim.
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hi tim, it is a hard drive mounted into an external drive case that connects through usb.
when w plug it in nothing happens, yet if we take it out and stick another in its place the new one works fine, so its not the external casing, its definately the drive not "firing up"
cheers
stephen -
A couple of years ago I managed to mess up a drive with years of information on it, yes I had a backup and I’m ashamed to say I messed that up at the same time!
Anyway, I started hunting for recovery software, found many expensive programs, even spoke to a company who quoted me around £3k to recover a possible 95% of the data! After trying a few trial programs I came across a decent one, bought the full version for £50 and recovered 99% of the data on a formatted drive, brilliant bit of software. At the time it renamed everything, 1000’s of files were given a number for a file name so I had to manually sort them, took weeks. The software has since been updated and now puts everything in a tree structure using original file names.
I’ve used it on several occasions to help other folk out, even retrieving photo’s lost on a formatted compact flash drive.
Embarrassingly I can’t remember the name of the software so I’ll take a look when I get home and re-post if anyone’s interested.
Cheers,
Justin -
Hehe, I just remembered the name……
Easeus Data Recovery Software.
Justin 😉
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hi, but that would only work on a hard drive that spins/ fires up….. mine does nothing at all…
cheers
stephen -
Jump leads?
😉
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