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 Post subject: Hard Drive Crash
PostPosted: Mon 09-13-2004 10:40PM 
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Recently my 80gig hard drive crashed. However, the drive is still somewhat "working." It doesnt make any noise, but my BIOS says it needs to be replaced imediately. The partition got deleted and now it cant be seen by windows or any "file recovery" programs. I read online that since the data hasnt been written over, anything thats not in bad sectors, is still there. I also looked online for data recovery services and that shite is expensive. I was wondering if anyone could help me recover lost data, or at least point me in the right direction. There was some pretty valuable personal projects that I should have backed up, but never did. If anyone knows how the "experts" get whatever's left off the drive, please inform me.

Thanks in advance. Only serious comments, please.

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most of the time, when the experts are called in, they disassemble the drive and put the platters into what is essentially a new drive to read the contents with a special program designed to reconstruct the original data. I don't know of any OTS software that can help in this case.

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some one suggested R-studio, but they never emailed it to me so i can't tell you if it works or not.

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PostPosted: Wed 09-15-2004 2:46AM 
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SpinRite 6.0 has some great reviews, I've never used it personally, but it's $90 compared to tons for the platter transfer. http://www.grc.com
He's also the maintainer for the ShieldUp! stuff, so he's a decently smart cookie and contributes back. Worth a look.

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PostPosted: Fri 09-17-2004 3:04AM 
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Jube wrote:
Recently my 80gig hard drive crashed. However, the drive is still somewhat "working." It doesnt make any noise, but my BIOS says it needs to be replaced imediately. The partition got deleted and now it cant be seen by windows or any "file recovery" programs. I read online that since the data hasnt been written over, anything thats not in bad sectors, is still there. I also looked online for data recovery services and that shite is expensive. I was wondering if anyone could help me recover lost data, or at least point me in the right direction. There was some pretty valuable personal projects that I should have backed up, but never did. If anyone knows how the "experts" get whatever's left off the drive, please inform me.

Thanks in advance. Only serious comments, please.

I used to do emergency data recovery for $300 /hour. I would use regular Norton tools, and getdataback software. My other secret to getting data off drives is all but lost, BeOS. Also some very nice Linux utilities exist.
It is to bad that you did not back your stuff up. When you say file recovery programs what programs have you used?
I would not take apart the drive under any case if I were you. I have seen many people try this, but I have not seen it work with anything denser than a two platter 10 gig drive.


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