It's gonna kinda depend on how bad it is. Sometimes chilling the drive can help.
Sometimes you can get away with taking the controller board off of an IDENTICAL drive and you can get it working. If it is critical enough, in other words worth the money, you can send it to a drive recovery specialist. They have managed to get data off of hard drives that have been through fires. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mitch Mueller Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 9:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [info-tech] Unreadable hard-drive Sorry guys I didn't realize that I didn't put my message in here so we go. I have a portable hard-drive that we couldn't get to work with the usb cable so instead, I decided to take it apart, hook it up to my hard-drive usb to IDE/Sata converter and still nothing happened. Download a few different programs that are suppose to work at reading unreadable hard-drives. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could get this drive to work. It has the teachers whole school life on it and I don't want to be the one to give her the bad news. Mitchell Mueller Emmetsburg Community School Network Administrator [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.emmetsburg.k12.ia.us<http://www.emmetsburg.k12.ia.us> Twitter ID: mmueller2680 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mitch Mueller Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 8:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [info-tech] Unreadable hard-drive Mitchell Mueller Emmetsburg Community School Network Administrator [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.emmetsburg.k12.ia.us<http://www.emmetsburg.k12.ia.us> Twitter ID: mmueller2680
