failed Hard drive

[R_Ethug]

Re: failed Hard drive

yea i've done the freezer before works good!

[timdog]

Re: failed Hard drive

Be careful with the swapping circuit boards....You have to use one that is the same version rather than just one from the same drive. As a side note I have some data recovery tools...
1) Deep Spar Imager http://www.deepspar.com/products-ds-disk-imager.html
It uses a three scan pass method.....reads the drive, images all the good parts and then goes back and jack hammers on the damaged sectors.
2) King Demi http://www.yec-usa.com/
Link seems to be currently down.
The King Demi is more of a brute force tool....you set how many times it tries to read each cluster and it bangs away on it.
3) Spinrite - Very good DOS tool for data recovery.

All three tools have recovered several hundred drives for me or at least part of the drive (All methods work the drive hard and can kill off a drive that is on its last legs). I prefer the Deep Spar as it gets all the easy to get data off right away before it goes to work on the hard to recover stuff.

do you have copy of deep spar you could FTP to me somehow?

[Vulcan]

Re: failed Hard drive

Deep Spar is both a software package and a physical device.....you need both together to work.

[timdog]

Re: failed Hard drive

ahh makes sense. might have tracked down an identical drive anyway, so i'll try to swap out the PCB and see what happens.

[Vulcan]

Re: failed Hard drive

Good luck.... PM sent

[LiQuus]

Re: failed Hard drive

that sucks.... i used these guys before for a client.. http://www.1data.com/

but they charged us/him $2.8K for a laptop disk recovery....

Good luck