Recover Hard Drive

[seigfried]

My system died a few weeks ago for reasons that I still don't understand. In any case, I just built a new system and I connected the old hard drive as a slave in the new system to see if I could recover some data. When I boot the new system, the BIOS does not autodetect the drive. The NAME field comes up as garbage, for example.

So ... I guess I'm going to have to try reading it with manual settings. Anybody have any advice for me on this.

New System:
Gigabyte GA-K8NPRO MB

Old (problem) hard drive:
WD800JB Western Digital 80 GB IDE

 

[Mark R]

Have you tried the drive on its own as master on a seperate IDE channel? Or on the old motherboard? Have you tried a new cable? Have you checked for any obvious damage on the drive or motherboard?

If your drive really is broken then the bad news is that you have practically no chance of recovering the data yourself. If you are determined to try then a search of this forum should provide plenty of information about the 'freezer trick' and circuit board transplants.

If there is *valuable* data on the drive - then you should very seriously consider approaching a data recovery company as soon as you have verified that the drive is faulty. Don't attempt to recover critical data from a faulty drive yourself.