Re: Recovery of data

[Gillian Affleck]

We had a similar experience with an old 10 GB HD a while back, where a chip on its PCB blew. We knew that was the problem as we had the cover off at the time and saw a puff of smoke from the chip. My husband fixed the drive himself by swapping over the whole PCB on the drive. We looked around some second hand shops and bought the exact same drive for $10. From memory there were only a couple (maybe 4) screws holding on the PCB board (and probably a cable). It took him a few minutes to do, and the drive was working perfectly fine again, with all data in tact. Gillian Affleck [New to WAMUG.  Hi to Kaye and Geoff.] Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 03/05/2010, at 3:39 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: Can any one offer suggestions for recovery of data from a failed hard drive, I realise that this is a task for professionals! Severin Crisp The drive is currently in Denmark/Albany ________________________________________________________ Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au ________________________________________________________ I have just been through this exercise, following one disastrous night just before Easter when my iMac's HD simply stopped working. Dead in its tracks. I tried the standards: Disk Warrior, Data Rescue, even good ol' Disk Utility. Nothing worked, and it was only Disk Utility that would even acknowledge that there was any sort of device there, although it could not deal with it in any way. I found one company which claimed to be able to deal with such a crisis: Spectrum Data in Bentley. They charged $88 to look at the drive, but warned that full data recovery could run into hundreds, and perhaps thousands of dollars if they had to use their clean room facility. I was prepared to pay them the $88 to tell me if any sort of data recovery was possible, and they tracked the problem to failed components on the drive's PCB. Since everything critically important was backed up I'm still waiting to hear if they can source replacements for the faulty components at a reasonable cost, but I can't justify the cost of full data recovery. I have lost some recent, non-critical data which is annoying but not disastrous. I found them pleasant and easy to deal with. I suggest giving them a call of recovery of your drive is critically important, and if the standard Disk Recovery tools don't work. Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 064 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>