Damaged Hard Disk Drive Data Recovery?

3 Comments

1. moonlightdancer_72 says:

   November 25, 2009 at 12:46 pm

   if it’s a really severe damage and the data are that important, you have to contact a professional data recovery expert.

   http://www.gillware.com/

   if the drive is defective a recovery software is useless. follow the 5 steps mentioned on that site immediately.
2. b_jay82 says:

   November 25, 2009 at 12:46 pm

   How bad of the damage? If it still sees the drive partition, you can probably just plug it in your computer as a slave drive and grab all the files from there.
3. jason b says:

   November 25, 2009 at 12:46 pm

   yes, how bad is the damage. If your drive can be seen in the bios there is a good chance you can get the data off using software, like Ontrack Easy Drive recovery Pro (standard edition will set you back $200, or free on… ).

   http://www.ontrack.com/software/

   if your drive is no longer detected in the bios then you will need to call in the help of a professional.they will build the physical disks into a case of same model harddrive as yours and then recover it. Check the Yellow pages in the phonebook, under the section data recovery.

   You don’t actually say which drive is the damaged one. If the damaged drive is the drive on which your OS is installed and you are still using it this very minute then the chances of recovering any lost data decrease with every second that passes.