data recovery from a damaged hard drive

[aussichef]

Hi all
I have just had the hard drive in my Sony Vaio laptop replaced by my extended warranty company
I had alot of data & many irraplacable photo's on the old drive which they returned with the fixed lappy
can someone point me in the right direction to a place preferably in Adleaide that recovers hard drive data from damaged hard drives & what roughly would this service cost

thanks in advance
warren aka aussichef

[aussichef]

here i am answering my own question lol
i found a 2.5" hard drive to IDE connector on ebay
i will try that first but if it doesnt work i would still like to know of a service that might be able to help me
with my new desktop once i get the redemtion from hp of my 80 gig media drive backup i wont have this problem
warren aka aussichef

[Div]

Hi Warren,

I just did a quick google search and these guys are in your area.

http://www.technetics.com.au/data_solut ... /index.htm

Not sure how much they cost though.

The search I did was "damaged hard drive recovery +adelaide" and there are a few others with toll free numbers to get a quote.

Hope this helps.

-Dave

[Div]

Sorry Warren I forgot to ask about the hard drive.

Do you think its a mechanical failure? does the drive sound like its working or is it clunking like the head is touching etc?

The most likely thing is that it has a corrupted boot partition (do you partition your drive?)

If thats the case then boot on your desktop and connect this other one up and see if you can access the other partitions (or whole thing). But that looks like what you are trying to do with the IDE connector.

-Dave

[Nnnnsic]

I've had loads of hard disk crashes (gooooo Seagate!!!) and so far, the best I've found is the Active Recovery tools, especially useful if all that's happened if your partition has collapsed.

Just grab a copy of Active File Recovery or Active Partition Recovery and it'll help. They are great apps.

[tasadam]

I had a dead 2.5" drive once that I managed to get the data from - I had an identical drive so I swapped cct brds on the drives and recovered the data.
Yes, using a 2.5 to ide adapter. (one example, not much to them)

If the disk has crashed, it's bye bye data on those drives.
Hook it up and try the data recovery software, good luck.