data recovery possible

jak731 · 11 Nov 2008 at 21:37

i have a seagate 7200.11 1TB which i suspect has just died on me, however i need to recover the data that is on that drive, is it possible.

i tested the drive on my MB and on a sharkoon sata HDD docking station, with the Mb it causes my pc to refuse to go past detecting the sata device when POSTing, and with the sharkoon it does not get detected in windows

the hdd spins, and died after i rebooted my pc, im thinking its a dead controller, but i cant find out because i dont have another 7200.11 at all.

milkinc13 · 11 Nov 2008 at 21:53

data recovery is nearly always possible, just a case of how much you are prepeared to pay

jak731 · 11 Nov 2008 at 21:55

ideally nothing, looking for solutions that i can attempt from home

jbloggs · 11 Nov 2008 at 22:18

Put it in a plastic freezer zipped bag (to protect from condensation) and put it in the freezer for an hour or so, then take it up and connect it to your PC etc...

jak731 · 12 Nov 2008 at 22:19

havent had time to try the freezer trick yet, however if it fails and i decide to change the circuit board on the HDD, do i need a board from an identical drive, ie

same capacity, model, from around same manufacturing date etc or will any 7200.11 drive work

jak731 · 15 Nov 2008 at 20:57

just tried the freezer trick and it failed, any other suggestions

postmanfw · 15 Nov 2008 at 21:02

I tried a program called spinrite once to recover data from a failing hard drive. Took ages but worked. Email in trust to discuss further.

jak731 · 15 Nov 2008 at 22:23

obtained spinrite through "other" means, and it tells me that sector 0 on the hdd is damaged, it there any way of fixing this?

tdowlo · 16 Nov 2008 at 00:12

Have u tried a different actuator arm - ie taking the platters out - in a clean room and putting them back into a different HDD with same specs?

jak731 · 16 Nov 2008 at 00:15

unfortulatly i dont have either a clean room (i live in quite a dusty house) or a 2nd hdd of the same spec