Harddrive crashed...
I have two hardrives in my computer right now, not sure of the specs of either one. All I know is that one crashed and has physical damage to it and the other one is working fine. I know it has physical damage to it because it was a really hot day, was spinning over time in my 90+ degree room after being turned on for god-knows-how-long and being used as high as possible (IE 20 windows open at all tmes). So I was going to the beach and decided to give it a break for the day, turned it off as normal, come back..||||| (insert many grey lines here)...ERROR!? what do you MEAN error!? So I got another hardrive, installed and whatnot and it's running fine. So if anyone knows any physical hardrive fixings other than 'send it to me/professional', please help. Thanks for you time.
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If so send it to me. You pay only shipping each way and any cost for DVD's to send you back what I recover.
If it won't spin up or the bios can not see it your only option is big bucks to have it disassembled by a professional recovery service and they can recover straight from the platters but we are talking BIG BUCKS.
Tex
I'll answer this to the best of my knowledge. When I restart, if I click on 'my computer' I can see a 'c:' and an 'E:' but if I try to click into 'E:', it basically disapears. Won't let me into it (IE, windows doesn't recognize it beyond being there for a short period of time) and all the data on it is corrupted (or so I believe)...
How exactly do YOU fix it if I would send it to you? (Not a matter of trust, I'm just curious)
Ok I'm kidding. I do this for a living and a good friend is a certified forensic data recovery expert for the stuff I can't get. he hooks it up to a weird black box thing he owns, and not a computer, and can get stuff I can't get using software. this is not a game for amatuers!
If your serious do not even power that drive up! You cut my throat every time you spin it up. I have got data off a couple that people said could not be seen and neither drive was ever recognized again. Every time you hit the power button and try and spin that drive up you lower my chances.
Tex
BTW... I charge companies $250 an hour to do what I offered you for free.
*goes to remove from computer*
so do you like, look at the files or what (has pictures of family and whatnot I'd rather not have looked thru..nothing illegal, just personal things) (has major privacy parinoia)
How much data are we talking here anyway?
Tex
TEX is the HD god here
This is only an option, if you are impatient and don't feel like sending it to Tex.
If you just need the drive repaired and want to continue using it normally, realize that it is not an option.
ahm, yea, I've trusted him, I was looking thru other topics before starting this one and I noticed that he helped others and they were thankful (they'd better be)
I believe that I have about 100 gig's, possibly less if the majority is corrupted...money's not a problem, I have good parents and enough sitting around so if they complain, it's good.
I'll talk to my dad about this when he gets home, make sure it's okay with him (after all, he DID pay for my computer..)
Do you want a 100gb saved to friggin dvd's? Crap you could buy a cheap 120gb hard drive and just have me copy it to that if you want?
is that how much is on there or how much you really want recovered?
crap.... thats like 20 dvd's to burn! send me a cheap HD to copy this crap to ace!
I don't mind doing it but man I don't want to spend 6 hours copying the data.
Send me a PM and I'll send you a phone number if your dad wants to call me.
Tex
hah, when you take the stuff off of the dead one, will the hard drive be unuseable or will it actually work? I need an external anyway, I think I'll buy an external and just ship that to you.
yea, that would be a beast to do...who really wants to spend that much time doing..anything?
will do as soon as I can talk to my dad (he's probably sleeping rihgt now)
Tex