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--Low Cost? HD Data Recovery after HD Failure...??

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thatsright

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To make a long story short: 7 year old Seagate 6.4GB HD failed. Its the scratch of death, not the CLICK of death...

So now, I need to recover e-mails fro OE6. Thats all I want. I tried the HD in the freezer tick, and it would boot into XP halfway, then it keeps on doing a CHKDSK. BAD. Is there anyway I can spend $100, or less...to get all of my e-mails??

I'm not willing to spend anymore than $100. Is there a place I can take the HD for around or less than $100? I live in Boston, btw.

Thanks.

P.S. The HD has been sealed in a zip lock bag, in the freezer since Thanksgiving.
 
well if you could get a ide->usb hard drive enclosure and put it on a system and see if you could pull anything off. that doesn't work last ditch effort would be to format it then use a program like getdataback to pull the information off.
 
Originally posted by: southnjess
Hows about setting it as a slave in a machine, so you don't boot of it and then try to pull the data from it quickly?
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Thats the first thing I did. I froze the HD for 2 hours, then a panic/rush against the clock. Removed my old IDE Slave Drive in my XP Machine, and ran from the Freezer to the open case. I installed the HD, and then started her up....

While its 'good' that XP immediately went into CHKDSK before full boot up, the bad part is that the Drive heated up rapidly and the metal expanded eagain.....

So, it still sits in the Freezer, awaiting final deposition.

 

What if I remove my second Physical HD, boot into XP and then open up Windows Explorer, and then QUICKLY attach the busted HD to IDE Channel 1, device 2?

But I'm not very sure that XP Pro, w/ SP2 will be able to handle 'hot swapping'?
 
Originally posted by: thatsright

What if I remove my second Physical HD, boot into XP and then open up Windows Explorer, and then QUICKLY attach the busted HD to IDE Channel 1, device 2?

But I'm not very sure that XP Pro, w/ SP2 will be able to handle 'hot swapping'?
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I don't think hot swapping is a good idea on IDE drives. not unless your willing to throw the mb with it.
 
I had a HD where the data got corrupted during a regular old check disk scan.
I installed it as a slave with a different drive and was able to access the data. I then tried to do a repair on the OS. But about 50% through it said there was corrupted data and it couldn't that's as far as it could go.

I then tried to get the data off by the slave method... But this time XP Pro couldn't even access the HD.
Don't try any "Repair" before you first try File Scavenger! 😱

File Scavenger was able to pull the data I needed off the HD. Scanning is slow, but it does work. $40 is a small price to pay for a utility that you need now, and will need in the future.

My tip would be to do an exhaustive search on the HD for ALL file types and then save the results to a folder. You can sort through them after that.
 
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