My hard drive was changed by the manufacturer warranty!!!?

Question

my computer did come up but nothing would be opened and i got errors all over the place. so dell chaneg my hard drive and my computer is just fine now. but i had a lot of important things on the drive such as pictures and important documents. i bought a enclosure and put the busted hard drive in it but it did not open any files. SO IF THE HARD DRIVE IS BUSTED & NOT WORKING IS THERE ANY WAY TO GET THE DATA RECOVERED? WHERE? HOW MUCH? HOW

Answer 1

granted there are services that can recover data for you but do not assume all is lost immediately... read these links

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1139

http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

http://www.highergroundsoftware.com/

http://www.stellarinfo.com/

if the data is not overwritten,it MAY be possible to recover some of the data by connecting it to another computer or the computer you're using by changing the jumpers on the harddrive so it's a slave drive,connecting it and trying to get to it that way.you said you already tried a usb enclosure so here's another possibility....

http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?productID=9301

this is a little lesson in how important it is to periodically backing up personal,downloaded files that you may not be able to find again and/or generate again. all hard drives WILL eventually fail. sometimes it's a year,sometimes it's ten years,sometimes longer. copy off all your important stuff every couple of months to a CD/DVD and make two copies in case the backup gets lost/scratched.

good luck...

Answer 2

IF the hard drive is bad and you want the data, you better want it really bad.
The companies that restore your data need to pick the pieces from different platters and align them with the FAT or NTFS formats.
Last time I checked it was about $2400 for about 10 GB of data.
No that's not twenty four dollars, that's twenty four hundred dollars!!!!

Answer 3

Sure.... but it can be expensive - you have to send it to a data recovery service. Typically several hundred to several thousand.

Here's one:
http://www.optimumrecovery.com/optimum-data-recovery-new-york.html

Otherwise, just do a search for "data recovery" and you'll get tons of places you can send it.