If someone were to disect a hard drive and take the disks out, could you use a zip drive or somthing similar to read and use them as you would a cd or dvd? merely a question of curiosity.
2006-06-30 03:19:21 · 6 answers · asked by dopeysmoker 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
CDs and DVDs are an external entity that you can carry with you because its a physical object that is portable. You can think of a hard drive as the disk for the computer. You can physically take out the hard drive and then connect to any other computer and retrieve data from it. An external hard drive is the same way. You can carry an external hard drive and then attach it to a different computer, and read the data off it. Or if your hard drive gets damaged, then a tech or yourself can manually move the data from the hard drive to your other hard drive by dissecting it and move the memory chip from one computer to the other.
There are no drives that read a hard drive since hard drive is a drive itself. Thats why we have a user friendly environment like Windows and DOS that allows us to retrieve data in the hard drive easily. You can just get another hard drive (internal or external) and use them to copy over the data from your local hard drive.
2006-06-30 03:29:47 · answer #1 · answered by Sean I.T ? 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If a drive crashes and you need the data on it what normally happens at a recovery company is that they do dissect the bad drive to remove the disk part then also dissect a new drive and place the disks into the new drive. It obviously will not work for long as the disks are not sealed but it will work long enough to extract most of the data. The expense is high because you are destroying a new drive to place the old disks into it.
2006-06-30 03:24:36 · answer #2 · answered by smgray99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are asking in a way that it is so easy to slice a hard disc and then dissect the platters like CD/DVD. First and foremost hard discs must be opened in a totally dust free environment and to recover data from a crashed disc that is not the must. You can connect it as a USB external hard drive with the help of strapon power supply and data cables. Then as a USB external hard drive you should just copy and paste the required file in a working hard disc or a zip one.
2006-06-30 03:42:51 · answer #3 · answered by Prosenjit B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would have to be done in a dust free environment, but even then it's not really possible just to put in some kind of reader and see all the files. It doesn't exist, YET! The disks would have to be moved to another HD.
2006-06-30 03:26:30 · answer #4 · answered by mbishop1113 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicely contained in the restoration console i advise typeing help and then hitting enter or it possibly /help i cant undergo in ideas of hand... that can provide a catalogue of instructions. ones you'll likely use are chkdsk -r then probably a fixmbr fixboot besides the undeniable fact that if it says each and every thing is free you could of formatted it without understanding... If thats the case your ideas are to.. Get a knowledge restore application, even after a format they could get well a great number of information. or spend plenty to have a company get well all of it... as a lot as you for the way a lot the information is nicely worth to you.
2016-10-13 23:56:21 · answer #5 · answered by ruddie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Short answer - no.
Long answer - yes, but they cost a few hundred thou to a few mill and are used by data recovery houses.
2006-06-30 03:46:37 · answer #6 · answered by SuperTech 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋