I have a Maxtor harddrive that crashed over a year ago (it was about 15 months old when it crashed).
Is there a way to cheaply extract the data? Can I simply switch out the harddrive disk with another harddrive disk?
Is there a cheap service that can extract the data?
I have TONS of pictures, video, and music on that harddrive that I really need to gain access to.
Please help!
2007-03-07 01:58:32 · 4 answers · asked by no one 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Drives can crash in different ways. If the problem is the main motor, extraordinary methods and expense would be involved in rebuilding the unit. Very few places could even try that and results are very uncertain.
If the Magnetic signals are corrupted, as in a power failure during a recording activity, then chances are better that most, possibly all, of the data could be recovered with special software even though the normal functions and pointers have been destroyed on the disk.
Check the yellow pages for a good service that specializes in this and get a few quotes. For those who like to experiment, there are recovery programs downloadable from the internet, but few work very well and they are often too complicated for the novice.
2007-03-07 02:23:05 · answer #1 · answered by Happy Camper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what I've seen, it costs a couple hundred for the retrieval service. There's no other way to get it off that I've ever hear of.
You should always back up that stuff. You can buy a 2 backup harddrives for less than you're facing now!
2007-03-07 02:02:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What??? If it replaced into that significant then actually you could undergo in concepts what you copied in the time of. I even have the worst concepts interior the international and that i be attentive to what's on my pc. Plus in case you have left your disk at computer international or anyplace then there's a decrease to the time they are going to shop it till now destroying it. If it particularly is been 6 months on account which you took it are you able to no longer have stored a quid a week as much as by skill of now pay for it? Or a minimum of have £40 8 in direction of it? As for "copying documents onto yet another ext hard disk with extra area" you could could of course pay extra for sparkling HD so why did you no longer in basic terms ask for it burnt onto dvds or numerous dvds (%. of 25 £10) then you've got documents and save up for a replace HD. As for residing house windows 7 with all due appreciate in case you could no longer arise with the money for a sparkling HD exterior or or you're never gonna have the potential to arise with the money for Win 7 nor probable will your comp have the potential to run it nicely. extra rate to enhance. on the top of the day in case you could no longer recollects what documents have been on there and you at the instant are not bodily lacking them or they have been had to pc operation, call it quits and backup extra in many situations (on dvd) the extra well-off stuff. If it particularly is in basic terms documents you need to get hundreds on a dvd.
2016-11-23 13:04:54 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can try to slave it into your pc. Set the jumper setting to slave connect the cables, run bios to ensure auto detect and try to see if you can access it that way.
Copy and paste to you other drive...
2007-03-07 02:08:39 · answer #4 · answered by suavesoyyo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋