Harddrive Recovery
Filed Under (Freakin Idiot!, Tech Skills) by Amy on 02-24-2007
This is a plea for help. My portable external hard drive died this week. I’m not sure what happened – it just suddenly stopped working one day. I had a lot of files on there that I need. Rob has tried everything he knows how to get this thing working again, to no avail. I need to find a hard drive recovery service, but I’m scared to use just any ole site I find. Have you used a service like this before? Do you have any places to recommend? Please let me know in the comments – I’m desperate!
[tags]hard drives, computer hardware, external hard drive, portable hard drive, hardware recovery[/tags]
Dang, girl! I swear you’re the second person I’ve heard say that this week! Unless I’m totally spacing, and I read it on your blog earlier!
Anyway – my harddrive crashed in Nov – awful, just awful – years of pics of my kids on there!
I was lucky enough to find a local blogger who runs a web design biz, so I asked his advice – and he told me who I need to go to around here.
So maybe look up web businesses in your area – internet marketers, designers, graphic designers, etc and ask them who they go to.
That’s what I did, but, totally accidentally…now I know that’s a good way to do it..heehee
I just haven’t saved up the $$ for it – all these silly electric bills, and such want to be paid first! Ugh!
Good luck in your search!!
Hey, you might want to give File Scavenger a try. I have used it with a lot of success in the past.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/filescavenger.html
Hope this helps :)
Yes I would still give it a try. One of my drives crashed about a year ago. I hooked it up my other computer as a slave drive and used this program to get my data off it…
Portable hard drives are a bit different than internal, in that the hard drive might not be the problem. Make sure of that before you do ANYTHING to it. It might be the USB interface. The last one that I had go TU was the USB portion. Inside most of them is just an internal hard drive hooked up to the USB interface. I took it apart, yanked the hard drive, and installed it in my PC. I’ve been using it for several months now with no problems.
Even if it is the hard drive itself, it is easier to recover the data if it’s hooked to an IDE cable rather than the USB, as the bios can recognize it at boot up. There are a few freeware data recovery programs floating around on the net, just do a google search.
This may not be your first choice but the last time my internal hd crashed I put it in the freezer for about 30 minutes, then hooked it back up and I was able to get the valuable data I needed.