So... my HD died i thik.. all my ipod songs/videos are all gone.. any body on this board know how to recover the data?. I tried plugging it into another puter but nothin... it doesnt power on... Data doctors wants 250 just to look at it and a min of 500 to fix it

anybody on here have any advice?


damn
Joe

 

You put the drive in another computer and set it up as a RAID, right?

Does your computer see the drive in the BIOS?

If you have already tried this, kiss the data goodbye. Data Doctors isn't worth it.

 

damn... all my pron.... no.. when i put it in the other tower I put the jumper to slave and it just basically froze up the computer.. id ont konw
****!!!

 

Not necassarily true. I lost a 250gb drive with tons of music and home photos (including all the car club photos). That drive would not spin up, and was not seen in the bios. Sent it out of town (i think it was Dallas) and sent a blank drive with it. They recovered every piece of data intact. As long as the platters are intact, they can usually extract it. But it can be up to $2000 depending on the amount of data, and the extent the recovery requires. If it is irreplaceable data, it is worth the money - then you invest in a RAID setup so that NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN!!

JJ

 

The data is typically sitting safe on the plattens (as mentioned by Doc) - you send the drive out (datadoctors can also do it), they put it in a clean room, pull the plattens out and install them in another identicle drive - power it up and copy all the data off of it.

This can be quite expensive - some shops charge up to $1 for every MB recovered. Some have a flat rate fee. I have heard of people paying over $2000 to reclaim family photos and home video.

I have done this to recover data on drives at work that fall into the non-critical area. The critical drives get sent out.

What ever you do from this day forward - go and buy an external USB harddrive (80Gb for about $150) and then back up all the stuff on your PC once a week to it. And remember - it is a backup, not additional storage.

 

Try putting the HD in the freezor for like 15-20 minutes, pull it out then try it.

 

I have actuall takena part almost every HD that I have owned after I didnt need it any more.. do you think that I could do a replacemnet myself?? The platters i'm pretty certain are still okay and not scratched.. how hard is it to do?

what would puttig the HD in the freezer do?
whats a Raid set up?

 

http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6255-5029761-2.html

 

It will probably spin up for a couple of seconds and then crash hard. Any spec of dust on the plattens would kill it - this is why it is done in a clean room.

 

Yes, do not do it yourself. If you get any dust on the platters, it will destroy it instantly when you start them spinning..That is why you need to pay someone with a clean room to do the swap. Freezing it would help if you had heat issues, but if the drive isn't even powering up at all, it is unlikely to help much.

RAID setup is using multiple hard drives as a single storage unit, spreading the data over the drives so that if you do have a drive fail, the others will still contain the data intact and all you do is replace the defective drive. Saves you having to do hard backups every week. I do monthly to bi-monthly backups of things like photos/videos. But I have a RAID 5 array, so I could lose 2 drives at the same time and still have intact data. Of course if the whole computer burns up, then you are screwed!

JJ