Hard drive

HELP!

Has anybody got an idea how to retrieve the information from the hard drive
witch stopped working?
5 years work on it!!!!

Dana Evans

On 11 Feb 2004, Dana Evans wrote:

> HELP!
>
> Has anybody got an idea how to retrieve the information from the hard
> drive witch stopped working?
> 5 years work on it!!!!
>
>
>

No back-ups?

First make sure the drive is dead and not the cables going to it.

If it just stopped working then try contacting a data recovery company
and see how much they will charge.

If money is an issue then you could try the *'ice box' trick. If
something is stuck inside the drive this may free it. If it does, get all
your data off it immediately and throw the drive away.

* WARNING *
I have seen this method used once and it was successful but the drive
died within 5 minutes of powering up. I WOULD NOT recommend it unless it
is a LAST resort.


--
Alex Devlin

Good friends will bail you out of jail...
... True friends will be sitting there with you saying "Damn. That was
fun!"

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:48:20 -0000, "Dana Evans"
<> wrote:

>HELP!
>
>Has anybody got an idea how to retrieve the information from the hard drive
>witch stopped working?
>5 years work on it!!!!
>

Do a Google search. There are companies out there that can retrieve
the data for you.


Have a nice week...

Trent

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Trent© <> wrote in
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> Do a Google search. There are companies out there that can retrieve
> the data for you.

Be ready to part with a kidney to pay for it.

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Some ways to recover a failed HDD.

http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6255-5029761-1.html
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"DeMoN LaG" <n@a> wrote in message
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> Trent© <> wrote in
> news::
>
> > Do a Google search. There are companies out there that can retrieve
> > the data for you.
>
> Be ready to part with a kidney to pay for it.
>
> --
> AIM: FrznFoodClerk
> email: de_on-lag@co_cast.net (_ = m)
> website: under construction
> Need a technician in the south Jersey area?
> email/IM for rates/services

Your cheapest recovery is to have a backup system in the first place. We
use dual hard drives in a mirror configuration in every machine. We also
have a backup server. For at home you can use any older Windows compatible
machine, through a simple network connection to use as a backup machine for
your data, or even the full system. You can have a large enough hard drive
on the backup machine, and make a compressed image to it using any of the
good backup software's that are out there. Norton Ghost is a good one. Make
sure that you have the right version of backup software for your operating
system.

As for data retrieval from a failed drive, the companies who do this
unassemble the drive in a laboratory clean room environment, and then use
specialized equipment to retrieve the data. Many times, a degree if it is
damaged due to the failure of the drive itself. Sometimes the client can be
lucky, and get it all back. If for example, the head came out of position,
or something broke inside and hit the platter surface, for sure there will
probably be lost data.

If the motor, heads, voicecoil, and platter are good, and it is only the
servo board that is bad, the complete data will most likely be recoverable.

The data recovery is a very expensive procedure. I have seen some of our
clients who were too cheap to pay out for a backup system have to spend as
much as from about $6,000 to $15,000 for data recovery. The data better be
worth it! The lowest I have seen to get it back was about $3000 or so.
There is a lot of critical work involved when unassembling a drive to do
this.

For much less than the amount for a data recovery service, you can implement
a data backup, or full system backup (the best), and have a cheap way to
restore your system in the event of a failure. You can do something as
cheap as a second hard drive in any machine, and just use a simple imaging
program to do the backups and restores. You can make a scheduled backup
procedure that can automatically be done at a frequency that you find
convenient.

There are also many external backup options available. You should spend some
time researching this out, and implement something, so next time, you can
get your data back within a number of minutes or so.

--

As for a hard disk where the motor or voice coil is seized, you can try to
tap on it using a small type of hammer or implement while the power is
applied. This may jar a seized bushing or bushing loose enough for it to
work for a while longer. There is the method of putting the drive in the
freezer for a few hours, and then hooking it up, and letting it warm up with
power applied. Either way there are risks at using both methods. The freeze
method may make condensation on the surfaces of the servo board, and cause
other problems. This method is questionable from freeze point of view.

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"Dana Evans" <> wrote in message
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HELP!

Has anybody got an idea how to retrieve the information from the hard drive
witch stopped working?
5 years work on it!!!!

"Kenny Cargill" <> wrote in news:c0fbcl$16dk70$1@ID-
216051.news.uni-berlin.de:

> Some ways to recover a failed HDD.
>
> http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6255-5029761-1.html

Yeah but, if someone has 5 years of work on their computer and no
backup they don't deserve it back. IMO of course.
Nice link though.
--
One reason to smile is that every seven minutes of every day, someone
in an aerobics class pulls a hamstring.

I have heard it said many times that it's not "if" the drive fails, its
"when". Five years is a good life for a drive if it's used all the time, I
can't believe that in that amount of time you haven't backed up a single
thing.
"Dana Evans" <> wrote in message
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> HELP!
>
> Has anybody got an idea how to retrieve the information from the hard
drive
> witch stopped working?
> 5 years work on it!!!!
>
>

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 04:33:01 -0000, DeMoN LaG <n@a> wrote:

>Trent© <> wrote in
>news: :
>
>> Do a Google search. There are companies out there that can retrieve
>> the data for you.
>
>Be ready to part with a kidney to pay for it.

Yup.

But money is a relative commodity. I don't have any...but all my
relatives seem to! lol


Have a nice week...

Trent

Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!