I guess it depends on the cause of the problem! My daughter had a crashed drive on her laptop and went to one of these "helpful" computer stores that specialized in repair and extract your lost data and they told her after about a day that there was nothing they can do. So she bought a new laptop. I asked her to send me the laptop and guess what! I recover for her all the data. I cleaned the hard drive from the extreme viral infection and I'm using it for my other hobbies!. She was living in Florida at the time and I live in Puerto Rico.
siu On Mar 29, 8:17 am, [email protected] wrote: > I didn't see anything about the drive giving the "Death Rattle". > I agree, outside recovery services are expensive! > > Good luck on whatever you try. > > JoeG > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bones <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, Mar 28, 2011 4:18 pm > Subject: Re: [Papermodels II 44422] OT: click of death > > On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 05:30 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > > Well, my main drive went south and I'm trying to figure out how to get the > > data off it. Any thoughts would be helpful. > > > I'm typing this on my iPad. > > > Bill > > Gidday Bill, if Mr Hard Drive is making the Death Rattle then chances > are you won't be able to recover anything from it with software. The > Death rattle usually means that the step motor drive part of the hard > drive is cactus and the only way to recover data is to send it to a firm > who can do this. > Jim mentioned the fact that they were not all that expensive...lucky you > blokes !!! here in Oz we have them sent away occasionally and the last > one cost about $1400, albeit price of hard drive with data copied to it > included. > We have all the recovery software, Hiren and diskloads of other > specialised stuff too but if you can't ACCESS the drive then you can't > recover nuttin. > > Bones > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? > A: Only one, but it takes a long time, and the light bulb has > to really want to change. > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Papermodels II" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en.
