Portable HDD crash!

[LostDingo]

Hi guys, can any of you recommend someone to retrieve data from a dead hard drive in Sydney?

I have a MAXTOR 200 gig One Touch that has given up the ghost just as I have returned from holidays. Lovely huh? I have about 20 gig of photos in RAW to recover.

Any help would be appreciated!

regards,

Paul

[huynhie]

If the drive is still under warranty then try maxtor first

[birddog114]

Hi guys, can any of you recommend someone to retrieve data from a dead hard drive in Sydney?

I have a MAXTOR 200 gig One Touch that has given up the ghost just as I have returned from holidays. Lovely huh? I have about 20 gig of photos in RAW to recover.

Any help would be appreciated!

regards,

Paul

It's very expensive to recover the data in it and check to see if it's worthy to recover with the damaged bills.
That's another reason why should we have more copies of backup than one.

[Yedrup]

Sorry to hear of your troubles, I have had a bit of success in the past using File Scavenger. You can download a copy here:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download1173.html

Hope this helps, I am afraid I cannot offer anyother advice only that true data recovery can become extremely expensive.

Cheers,
Terry

[LostDingo]

thanks everyone for your response,
i'll see what
i can come up with

[hangdog]

I've used Xyber Computer Service Centre in the past, for miscellaneous repairs (including a HD recovery). They're in St Leonards, NSW. Not cheap, but competent.

http://www.xyber.com.au/Contact.html

--Chuan

[Luke Smith]

exactly what is it doing? not starting? i have the same drive and have had a folder disapear on it, however that was due to my in-correctly 'ejecting' it. i chkdsk'd it and it all came back fine.

You've got backups, right?

L.