craig_007
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| posted on 26/1/13 at 08:06 PM |
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Hard Drive Failure
My laptop has died on me (dell inspiron 1545) I can't get it to boot past a black screen.
Since then I have bought external reader and removed the hard drive from the laptop and fitted to that.
Now my other laptop read/recognizes the hard drive but when I open it up I can't find any of my files from my previous laptop !!
Doe's this sound like hard drive failure or am I missing something for finding my old files.
Any help appreciated.
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gremlin1234
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| posted on 26/1/13 at 08:25 PM |
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1) yes its failed,
2) dont write anything to it
3) if you have good backups use them
4) if you dont have good backups -.*, you may be able to recover files, but need specialist software for it.
ps might just be the boot record/ partition table, and booting windows from a cd and using fixmbr ( pre win7 )
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PSpirine
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| posted on 26/1/13 at 09:30 PM |
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It's about £500 to have data recovered off a failed harddrive. Stop using it immediately if you want any chance of the data being
recoverable.
I've got two HDs which failed which had a lot of my photos on them. Can't justify £500 at the moment, but maybe one day! Pretty sure one
failure was a controller rather than the disk itself so all data should still be intact.
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pmc_3
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| posted on 26/1/13 at 10:01 PM |
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By cant find any files do you mean you can't find your documents/pictures or you can't read anything on the drive?
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jps
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| posted on 26/1/13 at 11:08 PM |
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There is free ware software out there which you can use to retrieve data from hard drives that appear to have become empty. One is called get data
back i think... A quick google should t turn up some options. No need to go anywhere near someone charging £500¡
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Minicooper
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| posted on 26/1/13 at 11:54 PM |
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I have used GetDataBack to recover a hard disk, it worked perfectly for me, it's not free though, that is under normal circumstances anyway
Cheers
David
[Edited on 26/1/13 by Minicooper]
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designer
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| posted on 27/1/13 at 11:03 AM |
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quote:
It's about £500 to have data recovered off a failed harddrive.
At least Dick Turpin wore a mask when he robbed people!
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johnemms
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| posted on 27/1/13 at 12:55 PM |
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Look at the circuit board on the HDD
Note the board id numbers..
Do search on Ebay..
Replace controler board..
Take off files ..
Sell HDD.. on Ebay..
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tegwin
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| posted on 27/1/13 at 02:28 PM |
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£500?! Granted it was 5 years ago but the last time I had a catastrophic HDD failiure (head crashing) it cost me about £50 to send the disk away and
have the contents sent back on dvds... google it
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craig_007
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| posted on 27/1/13 at 03:23 PM |
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Thanks for the help chaps.
So is it likely to be the control board that is faulty ?
I've had a look for control boards but the one a require need to come from America.
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PSpirine
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| posted on 27/1/13 at 03:31 PM |
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Usually it's the controller that goes, which means all of your data is intact. However, if it stopped working due to a drop/shock or made funny
mechanical noises, then it's probably a mechanical failure which is a bit worse!
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craig_007
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| posted on 27/1/13 at 03:39 PM |
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No drop or shock etc, when hard drive is connected to external reader the hard drive sounds at it should.
Can I just purchase another 160GB hard drive complete (suitable for my Dell) and use the control board from that ?
Can't seem to track a control board separately.
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