dead hdd. clicking sound

[luv2liv]

my hdd died about 10 years ago. made clicking sound. it was expensive to recover a 6.4 GB then.
now that i have saved some money, and recovery is cheaper, i am finally ready to recover our family photos.
where do you suggest i submit the hhd to?

here are some names i got from google:
http://www.24hourdata.com/data-recovery/pricing
http://www.krollontrack.com/data-recovery/
http://www.datarecovery.net/hard-drive-recovery.html
http://www.dataretrieval.com/texas/data-recovery-dallas.html

 

[VirtualLarry]

TBH, it's going to be MUCH harder to find a "donor drive" that matches that one, since 6.4GB HDs have been out of production for a number of years.

If the data was valuable to you, you shouldn't have waited 10 years.

 

[tweakboy]

Its dead. You can get your stuff off it for 1 or 2k ,,,,,,,, so count your losses. gl

 

[luv2liv]

oh man, i didnt know what donor drive is till i google!
i waited because memory at that time was expensive. in fact, everything was expensive at that time.

 

[BuffaloChuck]

Of course, IF you can find one, it will be collecting dust in some ma-n-pa shop and they might be willing to part with it much more cheaply. But the real cost, I suspect, is going to be your time in finding those places.

If it's any consolatiion, just about everyone's had a similar experience until they learn "multiple backups are better than one".

Can you post the exact model number for us? You will probably need to figure this out anyway, but then you might do searches on EBay, CraigsList and calling around the country side. Most college towns and larger cities will have 'local clone builders' who might have dusty shelves filled with old HDDs that they never intended to keep, but well... if they keep any inventory listing, this is why they'd do it- to help someone like you. (And sell their dust-collectors.)

 

[runzwithsizorz]

o.k. We have old hd's (one is 3.4 gigs) old Cavalier and some other oldies, From what I understand, it's not the size of the drive but the type (i.e. sata vs ide). Runz got our pictures off a dead hd several years ago by going into DOS in win XP and getting the pictures that way...it can be done, but you need to brush up on your DOS commands. Not sure if you can do this in win 7.

Wife of Runz

 

[Blintok]

what about running "getdataback" from Runtime software. I have used that to recover files from a dead drive. worked great. now i follow the multiple back up routine. Weekly on 1 drive. 3x a week on a 2nd. plus 2 other drives with just pix and other stuff backed up

 

[RedCOMET]

Op,

I'm in the same boast for a dead laptop hdd. i was also looking to at data recovery, but my finances aren't so great

What's sucks for me is that my laptop hdd is under 2.5 yrs old before it died.

 

[luv2liv]

my drive is actually a Quantum 40Gb Fireball QMP40000AS-A 0C142 IDE ATA 3.5" Hard Disk Drive.
found a bunch of them on ebay. now what?
buy 1?
then ship both the defective drive + donor drive to a recovery center?

 

[compcons]

Buy a couple as the ones you buy may be in the same state as yours. Under no circumstance fiddle with this or ask someone you know to give it a try. The recovery sounds easy for someone not doing it daily, it is really easy to destroy a platter trying the fix. Make contact with the recovery company, ensure they are reliable, and let them tell you what to do.

Best of luck!

EH

 

[Elixer]

my drive is actually a Quantum 40Gb Fireball QMP40000AS-A 0C142 IDE ATA 3.5" Hard Disk Drive.
found a bunch of them on ebay. now what?
buy 1?
then ship both the defective drive + donor drive to a recovery center?

No.
First step is CALL the recovery place, and ASK them what you should do.
They may already have everything that is needed.

Don't go spending more $$$ for the heck of it, under the assumption that you need it.

 

[fritzfield]

No.
First step is CALL the recovery place, and ASK them what you should do.
They may already have everything that is needed.

Don't go spending more $$$ for the heck of it, under the assumption that you need it.

Exactly!

 

[tweakboy]

Maybe its time for you to experience SSD.

 

[hannibal.smith]

Gillware: http://gillware.com/. I had them recover a clicking drive and the service and communication were excellent. It was expensive - $700? - and that was for a modern drive, so I imagine it'll cost you a bit more.