Hard drive damaged?

[wseyller]

This computer was left on over night. Next morning the computer was off. Bios does not detect the harddrive, so I get a disk boot failure. I took the side panel off switch around cables and ide channel and jumpers and that sort to get it to work, but no luck. I did hear what seems to be some unusual noise coming from the harddrive.

Anyone think its possible I could recover some documents.

 

[powerMarkymark]

No detection from BIOS?

Data recovery expert time = big bucks.

No data backups?

 

[wseyller]

The bios only shows the cdr drive.

the data isn't that important for expensive recovery. It is only a few days of work.

Data backups were not currently in place. This computer was a couple years old, but was just place in an office a few days ago. Backups are done on all computers, but it wasn't implemented on this one yet.

 

[powerMarkymark]

Originally posted by: wseyller
The bios only shows the cdr drive.

the data isn't that important for expensive recovery. It is only a few days of work.

Data backups were not currently in place. This computer was a couple years old, but was just place in an office a few days ago. Backups are done on all computers, but it wasn't implemented on this one yet.

Then just RMA the drive if possible.

 

[wseyller]

Cost is not a concern to me. I just want to know if any of you guys think there was any chance of data recovery. I was wondering if any of you had a cool trick that could use to get the data. If I could spend 2 hours to get 3 or 4 days worth of documents back it would save me a little time.

 

[farscape]

Pull the drive, insert in anti-static bag, put in freeze overnight, reinsert in another computer as a slave drive, boot system and see if you can read it. If good, get as much off it that you can. Freezer trick has worked for me a number of times in trying to recover data.

 

[wseyller]

thanks, I'll try it.

 

[Jeff7]

Was this the system in your sig? If not, what are the brand and model of the dead drive?

 

[funggorgor]

find data recovery company to help you

 

[wseyller]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Was this the system in your sig? If not, what are the brand and model of the dead drive?

It's not the one in my sig.

Seagate model ST340015A

 

[wseyller]

Originally posted by: funggorgor
find data recovery company to help you

I don't need the data enough to play a high price for expert data recovery.

 

[timxpx]

Originally posted by: wseyller

Originally posted by: funggorgor
find data recovery company to help you

I don't need the data enough to play a high price for expert data recovery.

have i heard right that professional data recovery costs in the thousands?