Thanks Gillian
Severin
On 04/05/2010, at 10:48 AM, Gillian Affleck wrote:
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
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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
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