Those work. We have offered a service to rescue data frombad hard drives
since 1997 and rescue or partially rescue an average of 2 to 5 a week. Most
are desktop drives, but the procedure we find works best is the same.
What works best, most reliably and completely with laptop drives is to buy a
the gadget widely available from Geeks.com, Outpost, Frys, CyberGuys, and
tohers, that allows the installation of a laptop drive in a desktop
computer. It sells under different names, but is usually something like
"Hard Drive Adapter" with the long name, "Notebook hard drive to Desktop
Adapter 2.5" to 3.5". It sells for $1.75 to $8.95 depending on where you
go. www.geeks.com has them for $4.95 plus shipping. These are not fancy...
a rack, a cable, and a raw socket at the end of the wire, along with a power
socket that the desktop power supply can fit.
Mount the defective drive in a desktop computer with extra bays... as a
slave.
You do freeze the drive overnight, but then let it return to refrigerator
temperature - about 40 degrees before you try this. Be ready as sometimes
you only get one chance. Keep the drive rotating once you start. Do not
shut down. Check all your jumpers for master and slave before hand.
The extra power available from the desktop power plug seems to help get the
bad drive going and keeps it going.
Once the drive is rotating, you can use drag and drop techniques to move all
the critical data to the desktop drive. From there you can burn the data to
a CD or copy to a flash drive. Do not stop until done as you may never get
another opportunity.
This is much more successful than a USB external, probably due to the better
regulation of power
We can usually make this work... at least 85 percent of the time, sometimes
by tapping the drive lightly with a padded pencil. Some drives have class
plates have shattered so of course nothing can be rescued there. Others have
magnetic material on plastic plates... The leading and trailing edge have
material that has bubbled up and flaked off... so no data is found there,
but you can find amazing numbers of the files you need.
Other drives that have "frozen" due to bad bearings are enabled to rotate by
the freezing and cold, but they will freeze up again if run too long or if
the drive is turned off. Usually they will never turn again. n Do not allow
the drive to get too warm. We spray ours with canned air periodically which
frosts them up pretty well.
RayBay
On 10/4/06, Alex Austin <circuitsoft.alex@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Do'nt laugh, but put the drive in a USB case and put the drive in the
> freezer while using it. Then, it should last a little longer. If you have
> another drive of the same size, put that in the computer in its place and
> use a linux live cd (www.sysresccd.org) to run "dd_rescue" to copy the
> data
> from the USB to the internal drive.
>
> - Alex
>
> On 10/3/06, Aryeh Goretsky < goretsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have had good results recovering data from failing hard disk drives
> > using
> > Runtime Software's GetDataBack suite of data recovery programs. They
> are
> > not free, but trial versions are available which you can use to see if
> the
> > disk can be read.
> >
> > For free data recovery software, I have been told that Convar's PC
> > Inspector
> > is very good, as well.
> >
> > Runtime Software GetDataBack - http://www.runtime.org/products.htm
> > Convar GmbH PC Inspector -
> > http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm
> >
> > No affiliation with either company (other than being a satisfied
> customer
> > of
> > Runtime's).
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Aryeh Goretsky
> >
> >
> >
> > At 06:58 AM 10/2/2006, you wrote:
> >
> > >Message: 2
> > >Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:44:53 -0400
> > >From: Donald MacQueen <dmacq@erols.com >
> > >Subject: [Thinkpad] FS: TP Memory
> > >To: thinkpad@stderr.org
> > >Message-ID: <452052F5.6030104@erols.com >
> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> > >
> > >I have a piece of Kingston memory that I think came out of my 570E.
> > >
> > >It is a KVR - PC100SO/128-R. Another number is 740617055771.
> > >
> > >Make me an offer.
> > >
> > >PS While we are on the subject of utility software, what is good for
> > >recovering data from corrupted drives. OnTrack 5 did not work well for
> > me.
> >
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