Ok so about 9-10 months ago I bought a Simple Tech external drive 320gb. All was well till last night when I went to access some data off the drive and I started hearing some sounds and the drive disconnected. So after a little trial and error I was hoping that the enclosure died not the HDD. But the HDD was what it all pointed to. I opened it up thus voiding my warranty and plugged the drive in directly to a SATA port. The system slowed down and didnt detect the drive, after rebooting it just gave me a no boot drive error till i hooked it back to my SATA DVD drive. So now I have a dead WD hard drive made in the 3rd of May 2008. Is there any way other then paying ~$900 to get the data off the drive? I have database codes, hundreds of thousands of pictures, home videos, music, stored applications, web code I rebuilt, all sorts of crap I don't want to lose. So any comments are appreciated.
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Hard disk crashes, any recovery?
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I have used this software several times on drives acting similar to yours with success to recover all data. You can try it for free and it will show you everything you can recover. However, you'll have to pay $79 for a registration key to actually recover the data. But you'll know for sure if it can be recovered by the software before you purchase it. Give it a try.
http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm
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If the bios cannot see the drive, then there is almost nothing you can do to access your data. There is one thing, but it is a fairly long shot, and would prolly make more difficult for the pros to get to your data.
You could find an identical drive to the one that you are trying to access, and swap the controller boards on the drives.
Again, this will make it more difficult and expensive if you decide to use a data recovery service.
And of course, the lesson learned is that 1 copy of important data is never enough. Get at least 2 externals when you replace this one.
Don
You could find an identical drive to the one that you are trying to access, and swap the controller boards on the drives.
Again, this will make it more difficult and expensive if you decide to use a data recovery service.
And of course, the lesson learned is that 1 copy of important data is never enough. Get at least 2 externals when you replace this one.
Don