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13th July 2014, 13:33
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Hard drive recovery
After transferring some files from backup external hard drive to my new laptop I then dropped the thing on the floor. Now the thing clicks when I plug it in, its not a power issue, I suspect the arm on the reader has become damaged when I dropped the thing.
Is there anyway I can get the files off it?
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13th July 2014, 15:04
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13th July 2014, 16:29
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I downloaded easeus recovery wizard I tried a lot of recovery programmes and thi swas the best recovered a fair amount after mine crashed and died
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13th July 2014, 17:13
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If the stuff is very valuable don't fuck about and send it away.
I sort of do I.T and that, drop me a message
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13th July 2014, 17:43
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Originally Posted by MuZiZZle
If the stuff is very valuable don't fuck about and send it away.
I sort of do I.T and that, drop me a message
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Don't do it word on the street is you send him your hard drive and it comes back full of porn thats not even legal in Russia.
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13th July 2014, 17:54
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Originally Posted by Dany4494
Don't do it word on the street is you send him your hard drive and it comes back full of porn thats not even legal in Russia.
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It's Deanos disk!
He spends most of his time in war zones, it's probably brimming with Uzbekistani Llama porn man!
or PDF receipts for car parts, I'm guessing it's a 4TB drive? 
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13th July 2014, 19:08
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Originally Posted by marcusd
I downloaded easeus recovery wizard I tried a lot of recovery programmes and thi swas the best recovered a fair amount after mine crashed and died
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I looked at this as the site offers a trial but how does it work as I cant actually see the HD in mycomputer?
its only a 1TB drive and its relatively new buts its the backup of pretty much every project I've worked on in the last 10 years so I pretty much need the information to work
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14th July 2014, 07:15
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14th July 2014, 08:23
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If you can find the exact same HDD you can try swapping out the broken parts. However if its the actual platters that are damaged you will be lucky to get any useful information of it. I have only ever done it with broken control boards. Buy the sound if it yours is more terminals as it sounds like its in the platter stack it self. So even if your lucky enough to get some data off it the donor and original hard disc would effectively be scrap afterwards. So really depends if your data is worth that much too you. If it is worth a lot I would recommend sending it to a pro.
Last edited by AXracing; 14th July 2014 at 08:25.
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14th July 2014, 08:50
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Probably the actuator arm or possibly the spindle isn't even turning any more.
Dropping a hard drive is .... well, just almost the worst possible thing you can do. Sorry to hear it mate. Although i'm sure it can be recovered ( providing there's been no head crashing onto the disk )
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14th July 2014, 11:29
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Originally Posted by deano_123
I looked at this as the site offers a trial but how does it work as I cant actually see the HD in mycomputer?
its only a 1TB drive and its relatively new buts its the backup of pretty much every project I've worked on in the last 10 years so I pretty much need the information to work
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Just use one of your other 2 backups of it!
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14th July 2014, 11:47
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Originally Posted by MuZiZZle
Just use one of your other 35 backups of it!
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14th July 2014, 15:11
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Originally Posted by MuZiZZle
Just use one of your other 2 backups of it!
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I have 3 old laptops that have the work on in some degree but those laptops are battered and havent been switched on for years
Whats the deal with these programs you can download? Are they any good?
Can I cause any further damage by powering the hard drive up to check if it works after its sat for a while? After I had dropped it I did manage to get a good hours work out of it before it began clicking
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14th July 2014, 16:09
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If the data is valuable
Send it away dude!
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14th July 2014, 16:13
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MuZiZZle
If the data is valuable
Send it away dude!
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This.
Don't fuck about with downloadable software if the data is valuable.
If it's just documents etc that you can recreate then yeah, try the free shit.
Also, don't be surprised if it costs a stupid amount of money to recover the data
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14th July 2014, 16:15
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Oh I know its expensive to get done properly, bloke here paid around $800
I'll get some quotes and see what the deal is
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14th July 2014, 16:15
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well the programme I mentioned earlier was poss downloaded in full of certain torrent websites., it was plugged in as a slave drive and left over night to do its thing as mine was the same, dropped and comp shop was unable to recover anything, so I wasn't losing out trying these things and as it happens recovered most of the main stuff I wanted. but also looked at sending away but couldn't justify 2-500quid for the stuff on the drive as im poor
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14th July 2014, 16:25
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Originally Posted by deano_123
Oh I know its expensive to get done properly, bloke here paid around $800
I'll get some quotes and see what the deal is
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Last one I had recovered was £3,000 and we were only able to get 3/4s of the data back. 
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14th July 2014, 19:02
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Originally Posted by chompy
Last one I had recovered was £3,000 and we were only able to get 3/4s of the data back. |
That's still a lot of POV footage of you fucking transexuals
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14th July 2014, 20:07
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Originally Posted by MuZiZZle
That's still a lot of POV footage of you fucking transexuals |
Pm me I like that ill pay !
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