Hard drive Recovery

If you send the drive off for data recovery, it will cost thousands.

There are some tools that might be able to help you. I have used tools from the Ultimate Boot CD to recover data.

Edit - and about finding a replacement: ATA/100 is a type of drive that uses the IDE interface.

If it will cost thousands I guess it is better to just keep my most recent backup. I emailed one company and they said it would cost between $300 and $1400. I'll see what that cd can do.

Actually "will" should be "could". I had a client with a crashed HDD, and I couldn't rescue it. The company charged $1200 I think if they could recover data.

Last time I checked into this for a local place, best price was $75/hour, 2 hour minimum, and that minimum was even if they found they could not do anything with it, and was told that it could take 2hours to several days depending on how damaged the drive was physically. Now granted this was years ago, and on drives under 1gig.

As for buying a new drive, my personal recommendation is a a Hitachi/IBM Travel Star, and make sure you get 7200rpm over 5400rpm (how fast the disks spin).

Now I was just about to go recommend a link to some for you, because I need to replace a drive in a friend's laptop, and surprise to me, my topy two places to buy parts NewEgg.com and mWave.com do not have any IDE drives! TigerDirect.com only has 5400RPMS! What the crap!

While you are buying drives, spend a little ## on a large external hard drive and do backups a more often!

-Greg

I guess I will not be getting a hard drive recovery, that boot cd above would work if I had a pc laptop, however it is a mac ppc so it didn't work...

I had an external 20GB that I used and it was too small it is full now and that is what I am using now. I planned on getting a networkable drive for our house so we could backup all of our computers to it seeing as our pc's don't have fire wire.

I was looking all over Google, yahoo, and ask for a compatible ATA drive and none were 7200RPM only 4200 and 5400. I am thinking about getting This one. It is 160GB 5400RPM and 8mb cache, it is refurbished though.

The only things that I could find on the old drive to help me figure out what to base the new one after was 80GB, nothing says about RPMS or cache! Google told me in several spots that it is 4200RPMs. Amazon wants over $125 for a similar one!

What size would you recommend for an external drive?

I don't know how much money you have to spend, but I would not by a HDD that already failed once (refurbished). You technically could get a slower one if you want to save money, and it should work...only a bit slower access time. You don't have to match the buffer size as well.

I'm more concerned with the amount of storage space on the drive, the old one was 80GB, and that got full when I did a video project for school. So I am thinking about a 120Gig or 160Gig, but I know I don't need 200 or more... yet. By the time I need 200GB it's time to upgrade my computer.

well you can look on the internet for a file recovery program. it can able to recover most of the data.

my problem is the same to cmoyer... and thank u all guys for helping us... more power to you guys

I've had two hard drives crash over the years. I learned the painful way that one should do regular backups. I now use Acronis TrueImage and love it. I highly recommend it. Better safe that sorry!

Well i would suggest using the best and professional recovery tool like Stellar Phoenix Hard Drive Recovery Software which is the ultimate solution for your problem and due to its GUI interface and efficient recovery technique you can recover your data with no time.give a try

You can try to boot Windows PE and recover all your data. It can really help. I had such a problem when computer didn't detect HDD at all.

I've had a lot of success using this CD http://sysresccd.org/

In my view its a tool no IT professional should be without.

It is a linux boot disk based on Gentoo with plenty of utility programs, freedos, virus scanners, undelete tools, Partition cloning tools, Archiving tools, Photo and document recovery tools, Partition Managers and Hard Drive Diagnostic reporters.

Also includes this: http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/

Might help you (although I notice I'm 4 months too late)

You may be frustrated with having no backup partition before or data gone with those damaged or corrupted partition. So what you have to do is rushing to find a kind of partition recovery tool to recover your damaged or corrupted partitions. Fortunately, quickly and safely recovering your damaged or corrupted partitions, comes to your way.

boot is the best solve of your matter through this you can recover your hard disk data and you can also kill the bad viruses through this procedure .

i am not sure but i think your hard disk totally damage and you cannot recover your data

Modern data recovery procedure for the first time so users can easily recover lost data is simple, they can use. You format the wrong hard drive and system work injury, operation, data loss problem due to accidental deletion can cause file system damage.

If a serious physical damage can not be restored

Well if your hard disk crashed it is really tough and you cant recovery the data lose. Just try to recovery with some third party recovery software available in the market.

You have two option,

1. Get the data by yourself
2. Ask for professional services

The first one will take time and some brain but it will usually be free while the second one will cost you an arm and leg.

If you want to do the first option, you will need some way to boot your pc. Try to create a bootable USB. Then run a disk recovery on your hard disk.

I would prefer you to change your hardrive.