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29 April 2008, 10:04 PM

Clarkie172

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anyone do data recovery on here?

I have about 350gb of stuff on a knackered hard drive that I dropped. Can anyone on here do it? PM me

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29 April 2008, 11:26 PM

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here's a trial for you - the software does all of the recovery work for you. You can always buy if you get the results you needed...

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30 April 2008, 02:51 AM

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I have a custom BartPE CD that should allow you to recover the data without too much of a problem (provided the HDD is in some kind of state to recover).

PM me your details and I will send the CD including instructions.

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30 April 2008, 07:55 AM

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Final what tools do you have on yours?

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30 April 2008, 08:28 AM

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yeah finalzero, I'd be interested in having a look

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30 April 2008, 02:43 PM

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Also worth downloading Knoppix and booting it up on CD/DVD to find out what it can read. I've not tried BartPE but have used Winternals ERD 2005 & 2007 which are both excellent.

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30 April 2008, 02:46 PM

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didnt think ERD made it to 2007 weren't they bought out by Microsoft ?

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30 April 2008, 03:00 PM

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didnt think ERD made it to 2007 weren't they bought out by Microsoft ?

They were but I managed to try it before it went Microsoft and very good it was/is too

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30 April 2008, 03:08 PM

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I still use my old ERD 2003, has ghost on it amongst other things, so quite handy

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30 April 2008, 06:12 PM

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put it in a freezer bag, freeze for a few hours then try to recover the data

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30 April 2008, 09:19 PM

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I think the mechanism (reading arm thingy) is broken. I stupidly opened it and it just ticks away. The discs spin and the reading arm just flicks backwards and forwards!

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30 April 2008, 09:35 PM

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If you have opened it, chances are you will never be able to recover the data from it. They should only be opened in a true clean environment. Dust can destroy the platters.

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30 April 2008, 10:12 PM

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I think the mechanism (reading arm thingy) is broken. I stupidly opened it and it just ticks away. The discs spin and the reading arm just flicks backwards and forwards!

I have a drive like that too, but I never opened mine up but you can hear it doing that

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30 April 2008, 11:49 PM

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I think the mechanism (reading arm thingy) is broken. I stupidly opened it and it just ticks away. The discs spin and the reading arm just flicks backwards and forwards!

that's not good

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01 May 2008, 06:22 AM

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once I had taken it apart to have a look to see if I could fix it I then read that you are not supposed to.

Apparently you still might be able to recover it

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01 May 2008, 10:41 AM

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The only thing you could try yourself is to get an identical drive and swap the platters over. I did this with an old Xbox belonging to a friend and whilst it booted, the drive fell over again very quickly.

I am not sure you would be able to recover the data though without getting it done professionally, which costs a small fortune.

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