I just wanted to let you SUPER Knowledge know it alls that replied to my post that you are full of crap. I am not an idiot and yes I did open the drive and expose it to the air. (How else are you going to look at it?) I am recovering well after the semi hit me in the face. But anyhow, just for...
You might try either one of these programs. They both offer a free download and they will show you what they will recover. The only thing is that you have to pay to actually recover but these are ALOT cheaper than a data recovery service! I have used both of these and they work great. Good luck...
This is actually my brothers drive and I ask him the same thing. He didn't actually let me know about it until it had crashed. I figure if I can salvage the photos ok, but he should have had them backed up to begin with. Tough lesson learned! He now backs up his photos regularly. I tried to be a...
I have a Western Digital 160Gb Harddrive. WD1600JB. It started displaying messages when booting up that an imminent hard drive failure was near. This came up a couple of times and then it quit booting up all together. I could not get the drive to do anything at all. I removed the drive and...