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My main computer clashed last week, I send to repair immeditily. unfortunely, the harddrive can't save, no way can copy data to new harddrive, any one has ideal to do something?
-------------------- Linda Yang Wilbraham, MA arttec@samnet.net Posts: 139 | From: wilbraham, ma usa | Registered: May 2000
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There is a trick I've tried twice, it worked the first time, not the second. But the second one had a bad electric shock, so there was probably no helping it anyway. The trick is to freeze it. I wrapped mine in Saran Wrap type stuff, sealed with tape. My reasoning was that I didn't want the moisture in the air to condense on it and cause problems. Of course the pins were exposed (old IDE unit), but I just shoved the connector on anyway, and it worked. The connector was to an external HDD enclosure I bought at Comp USA. I was being cheap; I wanted a back up HDD without buying a complete unit. This jobby was about $25, about half of what a normal unit was at the time. I'm glad I bought it instead, I've used it for data recovery several times. A friend got a bad virus on his computer, I put the HDD in the external unit, paid a visit to Dr. Ubuntu, and got his pictures back. There are companies that for a hefty price, will open a non working HDD and get stuff off for you. From what I understand, it has to be a dust free environment. So...rednecking minds want to know...could I get two hard drives of the same type and manufacture, clean and blow them off, then put them both in a large new clear bag? Maybe with tools inside the bag, and the opening of the bag sealed around a new rubber glove. One hand reaches in the glove and works inside the bag, the other hand works through the outside of the bag, just holding parts and stuff. I've seen inside an old IDE unit, other than the electronics, not really complex. A shiny chrome disk, and an arm thingy. Go ahead, laugh, but if you knew for sure that you weren't going to spend the money for the pro service, then "You ain't got nothin' to lose."
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I have recovered hundreds of hard drives over the years.
Often all it takes is a little knowledge of DOS commands and you can get back every thing on the drive. As long as it is not a dead main board. Even then we often jumped out the main board and recovered data.
However,, those days are almost over.. My IT bench is down to four old machines, a drawer full of parts and a stack of old drives.
So, find an old timer who knows DOS and let him try to get your data back. I am sure he can if the drive will spin up.
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I had that happen before (twice) and what I did was take the drive out, change the jumpers to make it a slave and install it to another machine as an extra drive. I was able to recover all my work related files.
-------------------- John Byrd Ball Ground, Georgia 770-735-6874 http://johnbyrddesign.com so happy I gotta sit on both my hands to keep from wavin' at everybody! Posts: 741 | From: Ball Ground, Georgia, USA | Registered: May 1999
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I use this grab info off computers people brng to me to fix and to back up my stuff to hard drives laying around
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