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Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - Buzz - 03-10-2012
Since the drive can sorta be seen, Data Rescue, or other similar utilities ought to be able to harvest data. You don't want to be messing w/ other stuff like DW at this point... sounds like the platter(s) may be blowing chunks, so you want to keep the heads away from the bad areas until you have harvested as much data as possible from the drive. Once the data is safely harvested, then you can mess w/ trying to resurrect the hardware, and then hope that it's not a hardware issue.
BTW, internal or external? 2.5" or 3.5"? PATA or SATA?
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Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - space-time - 03-10-2012
try the freezer trick
Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - ka jowct - 03-10-2012
It sounds very tedious. But at least it's not a big drive. Hope this works for you. I just ordered the upgrade; we have an iMac here with a dead internal drive. We're not sure if Data Rescue will even see it, but I think it's worth a try.
Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - Ken Sp. - 03-10-2012
Many times you can not boot and run off the drive, but if you use Firewire Target disk mode or as an external, you can access the data.
If that doesn't work, but it in a Ziplock bag in the freezer for about 12 hours, and retry as external.
Otherwise $$$$$ to a drive recovery place.
Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - jdc - 03-10-2012
I hope you get it back too.
$200 in software... ouch. You could have gotten a 2TB backup drive for under $100...
Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - wowzer - 03-10-2012
man...at least something appears to be happening with data rescue...DW completely belched.
Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - wowzer - 03-10-2012
It was the boot disk for my wife's hackintosh...I used my old G5 tower's SATA for her machine. It sure looks like a harddrive failure...I get lots of errors from datarescue.
Regardless, $200 isn't that much nowadays...some dinners cost that much. Strange thing is that the wife had a back up drive...not sure why it didn't do the job. I'll have to look at it all again when I'm done recovering. On my computers, I usually have 2 backups...one locally and one remote.
Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - wowzer - 03-10-2012
go data rescue..it just ran about 1gig without an error or belch from the HD.
BTW- these external SATA plug and play devices are really cool.
Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - LaserKun - 03-10-2012
Hope you get your stuff. I have a real old PowerBook drive I need to try with data rescue. I might give the old deep freeze too.
Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - ka jowct - 03-10-2012
BTW- these external SATA plug and play devices are really cool.
Which one are you using?