Serious advice needed re hard drive recovery

[David Rowland]

so the platter head is not working.

so ur using the external as the ‘only’ source to your files.. not as a backup hmmm

Here is a techi talking about it all… if you get a number of clicks, then u know what u got

DO NOT OPEN THE HARD DRIVE AND FIX IT YOURSELF, YOU WONT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbq8vfs1wYY

[Gordon Jones]

lorraine, my wifes boss used these:

http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/index.htm

Its expensive 🙁

[TimHarding]

quote Gordon Jones:

lorraine, my wifes boss used these:

http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/index.htm

Its expensive 🙁

Yes but they are very good

[Justin Mann]

Lorraine, does the drive still sound like it’s spinning up or is there nothing?

Justin

[Lorraine Clinch]

Apparently when the PC guy put it on his machinery it was ‘clunking’.

[Justin Mann]

Uhm, not sure then, I’ll give it some thought. A few years back I managed to corrupt my main drive, along with 2 backups believe it or not.
I found some brillaint software that retrieved 99% of my lost data, but the drives weren’t physically damaged. There are companies around that will dismantle the drives to get data back but I was once quoted £1000’s for this 🙁

I make sure I have a full backup in my PC as well as an external backup. I use a Maxtor OneTouch drive for automatic backup to external. A program like Memeo AutoBackup is good to complete the backup to internal drive.

Justin

[Paul S Martin]

quote Lorraine Clinch:

Apparently when the PC guy put it on his machinery it was ‘clunking’.

:hung: that is that then, how much data have you lost Lorraine

Paul

[Lorraine Clinch]

All my photo’s, of work done and personal stuff. Actually, as I was saving everything to the external drive, I don’t really know yet, until I come to look for something!
Fortunately I have got the past 3 years Signlab work transferred back onto the new internal hard drive, so have my work files (I think)!

Now though I don’t have any means of backing up (Suppose I could back-up to CD?

[Mike Fear]

Get a couple of USB pen drives – they are so cheap now even for large capacity ones.

Use one as backup A, and one as backup B – if you back up your files every day for example, use A one day, then B the next and alternate, or backup to both. That way the most you will lose is one or two days work.

Pen drives are very light and use memory chips rather than a disc to save on, so even if you drop them you are unlikely to damage them.

To rescue the data on your disc will be expensive, and if you dropped the drive chances are that its damaged the disc surface and they wont be able to get anything back from it.

[Steve McAdie]

I wouldn.t use a USB flash drive for back-up they have limited lifespan and wear out. I just bought a buffalo duo drive (RAID)it comes with memeo software and two 250gb harddrives usb & firewire connections, cost about £80.00, cheap for peace of mind.

Steve

[David Rowland]

and u could loose them

[John Dorling]

Hi Lorraine. We had a similar problem not long ago, and found several companies online who can recover your data, and if they can’t they don’t charge you, but I think it’s about £200 – 300. We decided our lost data wasn’t worth that much!

As for reliable backing up, you could use an online service which is (in theory at least) much more secure than any on site backup method. Try http://www.idrive.com

Good luck with getting your data back, but I’m sure it can be done.

John

[Michael Dunn]

i always use a usb drive for backup – and for transferring files and designs from my pc at home to the one at my unit – so it means i have 3 sets of files – with the pc at the unit not connected to the internet
then once a year i burn the file to a disc

i have had a number of the cheap ones pack up after very little use
i now use corsair – they are quite expensive, but are rubber coated, have a large lanyard, and are guaranteed for 10 years

i know its a bit late – but for future ref

http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.a … 2.0-16gbgt