Dear Tibor Mocsar,
Well, if you don't have backups, and are not willing to pay the cost
of a data-recovery service, then your only service option will be to
find an identical drive, and replace the electronics board on your
drive with one from the identical one. This will 'repair' the drive, at
least enough to get your data off it.
Do not open the housing where the disk platters are, however. This
is unlikely to cause anything but further damage. ANY amount of
dust inside this mechanism will cause further data loss.
There are some disk drive repair shops in the U.S.; I don't know of
any in Germany. Mostly, though, these shops will work with an
identical model of the drive, pulling it apart in a 99.9999% clean
room, and then move your disk platters to a known working drive.
For most hard drives, once they have died, about the only thing you
can do is throw them into the trash can.
Not such good news,
Anthony J. Albert
On 17 Oct 99, at 17:17, Tibor Mocsar wrote:
> After I had survived two headcrashes my third HD died again. Upon switching
> on the computer the engine of the HD does not want to start. Other
> harddrives work well on the same connection. This way without physical
> damages I seemingly lost all my data which had been collected over about
> three years. It's a tragedy and I can't describe how I feel.
>
> I consulted about a dozen socalled "PC-Technicians" but this was wasted
> time. None of them had the slightest idea about electronics of a harddrive.
> All they can do is "click-click". In my desperation I contacted one of the
> two companies in Germany specialized in restoring data from damaged drives.
> Well, they are really competent but their target customer segment is not
> that of private computer users. Their rates reflect this clearly.
> I'm afraid I can't afford their services for about DEM 2500.
>
> Has anybody an idea what to do in such a case?
>
> --
> Tibor Mocsar
>
>
>
> Net-Tamer V 1.08X - Test Drive
>
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