Broken hard drive

[bob]

Is it possible to extract data from broken hd to another hd. I guess it
depends what the problem is. Is this feasible?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Is it possible to extract data from broken hd to another hd. I
guess it depends what the problem is. Is this feasible?

Yes.
As you said - it is dependent on the problem itself.

 

[philo]

Is it possible to extract data from broken hd to another hd. I guess it
depends what the problem is. Is this feasible?

If the drive is spinning and detected Ok by the bios


you have at least a chance

 

[DL]

Send the drive to a data recovery company, assuming you dont want to
experiment yourself

 

[bob]

Send the drive to a data recovery company, assuming you dont want to
experiment yourself

Have you heard of putting them in the freezer for 1/2 an hour in an air
tight bag? Guess what, it works about 50% of the time. A friend of
mine told me to do this, and it worked. Thanks guys for the advice...I
did manage to retrieve all of my data....this puppy is going in to the
garbage can
http://www.meetmyattorney.com/slink/mt-archives/000275.html

 

[Curt Christianson]

Hi Bob,

Glad to hear that worked--50% of the time may be pushing it a bit, but it is
a known last ditch effort.

The cold temps cause various components to change in size/shape ever so
slightly, often enough to conform to the physical parameters when the data
was written. Consider yourself lucky, and a lot richer--professional data
recovery can be extremely expensive, and still no guarantees of success.

--
Curt BD-MVBT

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[Echy]

Send the drive to a data recovery company, assuming you dont want to
experiment yourself

In Australia where I am, sending a HDD to a data recovery expert costs
approx. A$1,500.00 so the data would have to have to be of great value.

Echy
Melbourne, Australia

 

[philo]

Hi Bob,

Glad to hear that worked--50% of the time may be pushing it a bit, but it is
a known last ditch effort.

The cold temps cause various components to change in size/shape ever so
slightly, often enough to conform to the physical parameters when the data
was written. Consider yourself lucky, and a lot richer--professional data
recovery can be extremely expensive, and still no guarantees of success.

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I've tried the freezer trick a number of times on different drives...
even though it usually did not work...the one time it did was sure worth
it.
I saved all the data on a 20 gig drive...

Another time i had a friend with a 200gig drive with a lot of read/write
errors.
it was so bad we could not get the data off...
the freezer trick did not work...but after just letting the drive run for a
few hours...
it started working again (at least somewhat) I think I saved over 90% of the
data...
then gave my friend a big lecture on burning backups!!!!