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Hard Drive recovery
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Had my main hard drive go down before Christmas and would like to have it recovered.
Some photographs I’d like to get back – nothing critical, just like to recover them.
Any location in Ireland where this can be done or any recommendations ?If it’s the main hard drive with the operating system installed that stopped functioning then it’s possible that only the boot section is damaged (the part that gets your computer up and running when you switch on), have you tried connecting it as a slave drive if this is the case? You can get adapters to connect an internal drive to your pc via USB but I normally just open up the casing of an external USB drive and swap out the hard drives to do this. If the boot sector is faulty you should be able to access most if not all of your files stored on the disk.
There are recovery tools you can run yourself when the disk is connected as a slave drive (internally or externally) which may work, haven’t had to use any so maybe a google search will turn up a good one. There’s a place in the UK we have sent hard drives to in the event of catastrophic failure but they are expensive and not always very succesful. Will try and get contact details for you.if any of the stuff is essential, DO NOT try running any form of recovery yourself
send it straight to a specialist data recovery company. it will cost you
a friend of mine in bray is a partner for one of these companies, i have used it before and it cost a lot of cash.
give me a shout and i will poin you at him if you need
Thanks guys. Would appreciate any info you have but there is no hurry on this.
I had a SATA drive (in a laptop) fail on me recently. It was going to be swapped out under warranty but no data would be recovered. I got hold of a SATA docking station (about €30) and plugged the drive in but couldn’t access it directly. However when I ran Vistas own backup application on another computer it succeeded in taking off all of the data which I subsequently restored to another drive. This application doesn’t attempt to backup any system files (which was where the damage was on my drive) and only went for the data. Worked like a dream and cant see that it would do any harm (by way of compromising other recovery attempts) as it only attempts to read and doesnt alter the drive contents. Might be worth a shot before involving the recovery experts.
Peter
There’s such a horrible feeling when you realise the data you require is gone forever. Not as bad as when your first puppy dies but it can feel like your spine is collapsing and your ar’s’ is in your socks. (pls excuse the grammar). Unless you really know what you are doing DONT try a recovery yourself. For the most part it’s not rocket science, however it is GOD’s way of saying “I gave you one chance to back it up and you didn’t do it. Do you feel lucky? …well, do you? “
Not sure of anybody in Galway. My first call would be to MARX computers in Dublin. These guys know customer service, even if you are not one of their customers. Maybe if you call them they can point you in the right direction. They’re on the webBest of luck.
C
I had an internal drive fail in my MacBook Pro today-
The machine wouldn’t boot, and the drive couldn’t be repaired using the install disks.Luckily, I had a replacement already, and had cloned my drive to it a couple of months ago.
So I swapped it over, and was able to recover all the data from the broken drive by connecting it via eSata-
The suggestion to connect your drive externally is a good one-
you’re not going to destroy anything simply by looking at it-j
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