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Hard drive recovery.... a little help please

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Statman

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My hard drive is not being detected by the BIOS. I know the IDE controller is working correctly as other drives are detected. I am pretty sure that my hard drive was shocked as was my video card, P.S, and old motherboard. Basically I am building a whole new computer again. Since the hard drive is not being detected is there any way for me to recover some of the data? Its a 60gb hard drive, I only really need maybe a gigs worth of data. Is there any software that you guys recommend to give it a shot? Or even as websites that explicity tell you how to do it yourself? A little help would be much appreciated. Thanks


I have ruled out taking my drive to a recovery store. I cant afford $500- $1300.
 
If the drive is not detected in the bios, I don't believe there is any personal software that overcome this. This is a sign that the electronics on the circuit board has failed, or that the drive motor has died. Either way it is not promising.

If you could find a working drive of the exact model, made in the same year, you could pull the board off of the working drive and put it on the failed one, if it is only a circuit board problem.
 
You would have to buy a whole drive from someone or somewhere to get the board you need. You might put a post in the for sale forum here to see if someone has the same drive as you.
 
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