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RE: [OT] Recovering Data from HD


  • Subject: RE: [OT] Recovering Data from HD
  • From: "Sullivan, Glenn" <gsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:08:32 -0500


If you are going to get it replaced under warranty, and you choice is
either try what you can to get the data, or forfeit the data completely,
the freezer trick is your best bet.

Put the whole drive in a plastic bag with a couple silica packets, and
let it sit overnight.

In the morning, pull it out and immediately slap it into a known good PC
as a secondary hard drive.

If it works, you will at least have partial data access (I've always had
it work perfectly, as long as the drive stayed spinning.  Once I shut
the machine down, it was toast for good).  If it doesn't work you still
have an unmodified, dead drive which has not been opened or had it's
warranty voided at all.

It is the best "last resort" going...

HTH,

Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I  MCDBA
David Clark Company Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ho Yin Ng [mailto:yahoogroups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 6:26 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Recovering Data from HD


Yeah done that .. put it in a firewire caddy .. but it still will not
mount.

As for the ice cube trick .. I'll give that a miss .. it is not my HD
and I don't want to take it too the extreme .. just incase ..

Otherwise I might void his warranty.

:-)

Thanks anyway!

Ho yin

At 11:14 19/01/2005, you wrote:

>I bought a product called R-Studio. (www.r-tt.com)
>
>If the disc spins still this should read it.
>
>It will also read "foreign media" in XP / 2000.
>
>I usually stick it into a USB caddy and boot up on a normal OS. Rstudio

>will then scan the disk and you can then copy the files off.
>
>HTH
>
>Neil
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: yahoogroups@xxxxxxx [mailto:yahoogroups@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 19 January 2005 10:32
>To: UKha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Recovering Data from HD
>
>
>I was wondering what equipment do people at data recovery centres use
>to recover data from dead hard disks?
>
>Is it something I can purchase and do at home?
>
>Regards,
>
>Ho yin




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