My computer hard drive died. I don’t mean that it needs to be erased & reformatted. I’ve done that many times. This time it just died. How can I recover the information from the old hard drive after I but a new one?
2007-03-24 09:45:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
You need to send this to a professional recovery company. Contact me for quotes.
2007-03-31 10:35:03 · answer #1 · answered by RHJ Cortez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends how thoroughly dead it is. If it sort-of works but not well enough to run an operating system, you can slave it or use an IDE-to-USB adapter and hopefully recover most of your data, but don't bet on recovering programs. If it's seriously dead, you need an expert data recovery service, which will be very expensive. If the data is very important there are some recovery services which will do an evaluation for free, so at least you won't have to pay to find out if they can recover it or not.
2007-03-24 09:52:00 · answer #2 · answered by Fix My PC Mike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. and get a hard drive case, about 30 or 40 dollars. You remove the old hard drive and put it in the case. The case has a motor to turn the disc and connects to any computer with a USB port. Your old hard drive should show up as a drive on the other computer. Then simply copy your data to the computer or to a CD or DVD.
2007-03-31 10:22:06 · answer #3 · answered by alltv 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Freeze it.
I know it sounds crazy, but I'm serious. Put it in a Ziplock bag, stick it in your freezer, and go out and buy a new hard drive.
Once you've got your new hard drive up and running, shut your computer down. Get your frozen hard drive and hook it up to your PC (make sure your jumper settings are right for your drive's new position.) Then turn on the computer.
Frequently, your damaged hard drive will stay up long enough for you to get your important information off of it. As it warms up, though, it might crash again. If this happens, just freeze it again and start where you left off.
This will likely work a few times, but eventually, the drive will be too trashed to recover.
One more tip: Instead of COPYING your old files, MOVE them. That way, when the hard drive crashes, you'll be able to tell what files you still need to recover after you freeze it again.
2007-03-24 09:47:42 · answer #4 · answered by Bradley 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Hi Rose,
That can be very difficult and very expensive.
One thing you can try yourself is to turn it on it's side and see if that will get it going. Hard drives are multipoise - that is they will work either way. Sometimes when a drive fails you can get it to work by rotating it 90 degrees. That shifts the head and changes the weight load on the bearings and they often work - at least for awhile. We do it by using a USB enclosure but it can be done by taking the side off your computer.
Good luck. We are finding success in a high percentage of the units.
Norm
2007-03-24 09:47:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
these only about two things you can do at home ..
1. plug it into a working machine and see if it gets detected as a slave drive
2. as another answerer has said freeze it overnight and then try it as a slave drive
the next step is data recovery people !!
2007-03-24 09:52:07 · answer #6 · answered by cool_clearwater 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
place the jumpers in the back of the drive to slave hook the next ribbon cable to the drive reboot your computor you should now show an f drive and all your data should be there i have been using my old drive for data storage for three years now
2007-03-31 22:56:00 · answer #7 · answered by zimmy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are companies that will recover data. Look for hard disk or data recovery services.
2007-03-24 09:48:50 · answer #8 · answered by Meg W 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
we can get data recovery software in market for that we can recover as example dc rocovery
2007-03-31 03:40:41 · answer #9 · answered by Z H O O M !!! N 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋