HARD DRIVE CRASH! How to recover?

**ffmihai** · 08-03-2007, 11:43 PM

that really sucks.
did you try google?
http://www.google.ro/search?sourceid...covery+service

**Vitasoy** · 08-04-2007, 01:04 AM

This place is famous for recovering drives

http://www.drivesavers.com/

**sicone** · 08-04-2007, 01:05 AM

That sucks ass, best of luck recovering all the data.

**yahoo-xxx-girls.com** · 08-04-2007, 01:28 AM

Hi AmeliaG try this !

I have never tried this however it is one of the best on the market people say...

http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm

Good luck,

.

**skrog** · 08-04-2007, 01:39 AM

http://www.runtime.org/

**gecko** · 08-04-2007, 02:22 AM

If the bios detects the drive, then recovery software like easyrecovery pro can do the job

**paytime** · 08-04-2007, 02:29 AM

try using magic recovery did help me twice: software-recovery.com

**digifan** · 08-04-2007, 04:58 AM

Mac or pc????

**PowerCum** · 08-04-2007, 06:21 AM

Always have your content on RAID 5 or RAId 1, so you don't lose it.

If the drive is recognized by the BIOS, just plug it to a machine with a bigger drive and dump it to a big file:

dd if=/dev/drive of=/tlace/to/the/drive/image.img

Then you can mount that image and/or work with it using recovery tools. that way you will not need to force the crashed drive hours and hours of extra work. also if you screw things, you are still working on a drive image and not on the original one.

If the drive is not recognized by the BIOS, the expensive option is to unplug the drive and give it to some data recovery service.

If the Drive is recognized by the BIOS and does not spin properly then you can cool it. Put it into a plastic bag (preferably one isolated like the ones that come with any computer part) and then put it into the freezer. Aftyer about 3 hours take it out and plug it to the computer. Chances are that you will have a perfectly working drive for about 30 - 45 minutes or you will have a completely crashed drive.

I learned data backup lesson the hard way lots of years ago. Now all my important data is on at least two computers with RAID each one... have you seen four (4) HDs in RAID crash at the same time? I have, and the result was not nice.

**fryer** · 08-04-2007, 06:35 AM

If none of the above work for you. This will. I once dropped (Ooops) an important drive and it damaged the inner workings. This company recovered all the data.

http://www.lazarus.com/

Not sure how many GB you have but all I can say is they did a great job. I did about a 40GB recovery for 1K. It all depends on what your data is worth to you at this point.

**yys** · 08-04-2007, 06:58 AM

Cheap and easy to use program. I highly recommend it.

http://www.tucows.com/soltns_detail....rticle_id=1399

**marzzo** · 08-04-2007, 08:10 AM

Originally posted by Balalsubturfyooj

I have never tried this however it is one of the best on the market people say...

http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm

Good luck,

.

I've used Spinrite and it worked great for me, I highly recommend it.

**rowan** · 08-04-2007, 08:27 AM

What kind of crash was it? Computer reporting that the drive doesn't exist, or the audible mechanical kind? Is it possible you have a virus that has trashed it? Is it a single drive (ie about 500GB or below) or one of those larger terabyte drives?

**AliGbone** · 08-04-2007, 11:57 AM

drive savers are good for pc crash look up the url in google

**jeffrey** · 08-04-2007, 12:04 PM

Originally posted by AmeliaG

A couple drives crashed at once

Two drives crashing at the same time?
That sounds more like a controler then the actual drives.

**bknoob** · 08-04-2007, 12:10 PM

Originally posted by jeffrey

Two drives crashing at the same time?
That sounds more like a controler then the actual drives.

what he said

**Dman** · 08-04-2007, 02:14 PM

umm, that would be my worst nightmare!

**Roald** · 08-04-2007, 02:21 PM

had it once, Getdataback or something like that did an awsome job.

**lunchbox** · 08-04-2007, 03:20 PM

ive also had succes with GetDataBack

**mykel** · 08-04-2007, 03:24 PM

Originally posted by jeffrey

Two drives crashing at the same time?
That sounds more like a controler then the actual drives.

yeah, it must be the controller.

you might also wanna try cgsecurity .org /wiki /TestDisk. I recently restored a friend's drive through it

HARD DRIVE CRASH! How to recover?

HARD DRIVE CRASH! How to recover?

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