Hard drive crashed. Has pics that I need off it. Have $$$ if someone can save them.

3/13/2006 9:16:28 PM

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3/13/2006 9:24:34 PM

search n00b

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[Edited on March 13, 2006 at 9:41 PM. Reason : ]

3/13/2006 9:40:52 PM

^^

Quote :

"This is how urban legends are born. Am sure someone else has put his hard drive up in a tree for three days, or perhaps he put it under his pillow, and then...sure enuf it worked again! The reason this fellows HD drive worked was not because of the freezer, but beccause, unknown to him, a bird was singing in a tree during that time. It was the bird that did it!"

funny post... but everyone else on there seems to think it works....

3/13/2006 10:01:14 PM

boil it

3/13/2006 10:38:20 PM

how much are you willing to pay?

3/13/2006 11:39:08 PM

we had to get a hard drive recovered at work.

final bill: $1800.00

hope you have money

3/13/2006 11:44:07 PM

^ we had to get data recovered off of a gimped raid array.


ended up costing $6000.

3/13/2006 11:45:51 PM

damn I need to get into harddrive recovery bidness....

3/13/2006 11:47:08 PM

Yeah, especially since most of the time, all that's needed is to replace the controller card. (I assume)

3/13/2006 11:49:27 PM

if clean rooms weren't against my religion I'd totally go into data recovery

3/14/2006 1:37:09 AM

Quote :

"Yeah, especially since most of the time, all that's needed is to replace the controller card. (I assume) "

I doubt it.

Most hard drives that crash so they can't be read by the computer have a physical malfunction.

AFAIK, those HD recovery places that are really expensive have to remove the platters and read them by some other means (including, I believe, using electron microscopes), which is a very delicate and pain-staking process.

If all it took was to replace the controller board, then I assume they'd tell you that, and do it.

3/14/2006 2:45:22 AM

nole ... describe "crashed". Is the thing getting power at all? Is it being recognized by the computer? Etc. etc.

[Edited on March 14, 2006 at 6:48 AM. Reason : .]

3/14/2006 6:48:02 AM

fregac where you at

3/14/2006 7:16:43 AM

Put the drive in an external enclosure and try to access it through USB. If the drive is recognized then you might have a decent chance at recovering your data. If it's not recognized when you connect it by USB then it's going to be pretty expensive to recover your data.

3/14/2006 10:40:09 AM