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Data Recovery from Hard Drive
Does anyone have a recommendation of a local data recovery type company to see if they can recover some photos from an old hard drive? Thanks for any thoughts.
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10-09-2018, 03:23 PM #2
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Re: Data Recovery from Hard Drive
It's from an old computer that was in a family storage unit. I was told by someone that "you get one shot" (which I have no idea about) so just wanted to be somewhat careful in not messing it up playing around with it on my own. It's a Seagate drive out of a Dell computer - my guess is 10 plus years old.
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10-09-2018, 03:46 PM #4
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Re: Data Recovery from Hard Drive
I can assure you that you don't get 1 shot.
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10-09-2018, 04:17 PM #5
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Re: Data Recovery from Hard Drive
If you don't know the drive to be bad, remove the drive from the old PC and just buy a cheap USB drive enclosure. Fire it up and see what happens.
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10-09-2018, 05:48 PM #7
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I've had externals crap out on me from time-to-time. One time I was able to do the "freezer" technique to get some data off the drive before it crapped out again.
I don't know of anyone local that I trust. I've sent drives back to Seagate in the past (it's my Seagates that tend to die, not my WD's). But it was crazy expensive. The last one I sent them (for a client) was about $400 and I had to send them a new drive to put the data on.
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10-09-2018, 06:22 PM #8
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If you don't know the drive to be bad, remove the drive from the old PC and just buy a cheap USB drive enclosure. Fire it up and see what happens.
I've done that with a couple of drives from old computers and had success.
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10-09-2018, 06:47 PM #9
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Is the old computer not booting up. Like others have said, may want to first try an external hdd enclosure. Data recovery is expense depending on how bad the HDD is.
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10-12-2018, 08:13 AM #11
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THere are services like Gigabyters, but be ready to pay. Even if there's platter damage, they can recover some data, if not all.
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10-12-2018, 08:44 AM #12
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^ Thanks much....had a friend who took it and is working on it - we shall see. Appreciate the insights!
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