Harddrive recovery. Please help

[PlatinumPrince]

I am trying to get a hard drive to boot up after couple months of not being in use. I have checked all the cables etc. but it still doesnt work. One time I mistakenly plug in the hard drive power card while the pc was on. The pc shut down after that but it still boot up after restarting it. Could one "power surge" cause the hard drive not to boot and if so is there a way that I can recover the data on it or is there some sort of recovery process that I can do? Please help

 

[wpshooter]

You said you plugged in the power card, did you mean the power cable ?

What brand of drive is it ?

 

[stevty2889]

Is the drive recognized by the BIOS? Plugging in the power while the PC is on is definatly could have damaged the drive.

 

[PlatinumPrince]

Sorry I meant the power cable, The drive is a fujitsu. When I turn on the power the cpu powers up but no activity comes from the hard drive. Is there any way that I can get the hard drive to work at least one time so that I can copy the info from it? Or can I somehow create a dixk image of the drive without it powering up?

 

[stevty2889]

You're not going to be able to recover the data off of the drive if it isn't recognized by the bios.

 

[PlatinumPrince]

Is there some sort of professional data recovery that can get the info from it?

 

[stevty2889]

Possibly, but they aren't cheap, hundreds to thousands of dollars..

 

[birdpup]

Ensure your drive jumpers are correctly positioned.

If the drive jumpers are positioned correctly, and the bios does not recognize the drive, you can attempt multiple reboots until that one time the system may recognize the drive OR you can try installing this hard drive in another system in the hope another system with another bios may recognize the hard drive.

You will not be able to recover the data cheaply, by yourself, if the bios does not recognize the drive.

Data can possibly be recovered by using one of these programs:
1) R-Studio
2) GetDataBack
3) Ontrack's Easy Recovery Pro
4) Quetek
5) File Scavenger
6) HDD Regenerator

I prefer GetDataBack.

This Fujitsu Diagnostic Tool v6.3 may be useful if the bios recognizes the drive and after you have attempted data recovery.

For professional data recovery, google for "data recovery". Typical cost is $1500 with a range of $500-$3000.

 

[PlatinumPrince]

Thank for the help guys

 

[HDR]

What model is the Fujitsu, if it is not an MPG or MPF (some models) then you may have fried the board and may be able to find an exact model to exchange with.

 

[PlatinumPrince]

Sorry for the late reply. The model is MPD3084AT. When I try running it on another pc, it recognizes the drive but nothing happens afterwards. It just says S.M.A.R.T capability diabled then it try to boot from cd drive then nothing happens. I really need 2 get this drive working again. Thanks for help

 

[PlatinumPrince]

Anyone, please reply

 

[birdpup]

The bios recognizes the hard drive. Use one of the recovery programs on either:
1) another system with the failed drive hooked up as a slave, or
2) another hard drive with the windows operating system temporarily installed on it so you may hook up your failed drive as a slave drive.

Do either of these so you may use the recovery program to find the data on the failed drive and you may copy the data from the failed drive to a good drive. If you do not have a second computer system or a spare hard drive, then borrow somebody elses or purchase a new hard drive. S.M.A.R.T. capability is not needed for recovering your data, it is only needed if you wish to restore the drive to normal use, which would require recreating partitions and setting up a new filesystem (format).

One of these should help:
Data Recovery Programs
1) R-Studio
2) Runtime's GetDataBack
3) Ontrack's Easy Recovery Pro
4) Quetek
5) File Scavenger
6) HDD Regenerator
7) TestDisk

Rescue Disks
UBCD4Win
BartPE
Knoppix