Recovering a hard drive??

Digital Eclipse · Rated R Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 50 Location: Ocala, FL

Hey everyone. Someone at my work fried one of their personal hard drives and wanted me to pull pictures off of it they dont have backups of.Well the computer detects it when its booting up but neither windows or linux can read from it. Anyone know of any software or tips I cant think of.

Thanks Wave

mrweasel · Posted: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:29:55 Post Subject:

could be a couple of things, least of which is the drive isn't spinning properly -- in which case you're talking hundreds of dollars to extract the data

LaTech · Posted: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:30:52 Post Subject:

Have you tried ghosting the HD over to another drive?
You can also download a copy of OnTrack Data Recovery, I think. That will also work.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:04:12 Post Subject:

I don't think the trial version of OnTrack will actually recover the data. Only show you what is possible.

Unfortunately data recovery is tricky and can get expensive.

HackaX0rus · Posted: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:06:07 Post Subject:

yes...too bad windows still didnt use FAT partiitions or data recoevery would be the business to be in...2 teachers at my school paid around 500$ each to have thier FAT tables replaced Laughing

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BeerCheeze · Posted: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:10:35 Post Subject:

You can take a look at this: http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm

The personal version is $45

mrweasel · Posted: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:56:05 Post Subject:

Unless you happen to know someone with a copy of EnCase...my personal fav cause the company bought one...approx $3500, but worth every penny