What are the options for recovering data off a failing hard drive? The drive has multiple bad sectors. Bios/Windows detects the drive and partitions but can't access the files. Can norton ghost clone the data off? Someone also told me that putting the hard drive in the freezer for an hour may buy time to recover the data? I know data recovery places could get the data off but its very expensive, what techniques do they use?
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Harddrive Recovery
- Thread starter JAW
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They use techniques you couldn't afford, thus the high prices 
Do NOT put the drive in the freezer. You don't even know what the problem is yet. It detects - good. Windows sees partitions - good. The first thing you can do is try some recovery software to get past the partition errors.
Do NOT put the drive in the freezer. You don't even know what the problem is yet. It detects - good. Windows sees partitions - good. The first thing you can do is try some recovery software to get past the partition errors.