My friend gave me a Western Digital WD5000AAKS eStata 500GB hard drive and said that it failed and he needs his pictures off of it.
I have never attempted serious data recovery before, but I thought that I could try GetDataBack and see what happens.
But, when I put the drive in the PC, not even the BIOS will recognize it, although it does slow the boot time.
Coincidentally my main drive is also a WD5000AAKS so I know that it should not have issues with my system(Vista 32 w/ Intel DP35DP motherboard).
I even set the Jumper to place the drive in sata 1 mode to see if it would help and it did not.
So is there anything else that I can do to recover the data? I have tried all the tricks that I can think of. I believe that the drive electronics is dead and if he wants his data back he must go to a true data recovery company.
I have never attempted serious data recovery before, but I thought that I could try GetDataBack and see what happens.
But, when I put the drive in the PC, not even the BIOS will recognize it, although it does slow the boot time.
Coincidentally my main drive is also a WD5000AAKS so I know that it should not have issues with my system(Vista 32 w/ Intel DP35DP motherboard).
I even set the Jumper to place the drive in sata 1 mode to see if it would help and it did not.
So is there anything else that I can do to recover the data? I have tried all the tricks that I can think of. I believe that the drive electronics is dead and if he wants his data back he must go to a true data recovery company.
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