Hard drive failure

Memnoch

Memnoch

Memnoch

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I have had a lot of problems with hard drives in the last few years. Now I own 3 hard drives totaling 500GB of space, all of which no longer work. I would like to recover the data, however I have no idea how.

The data is still on the drives, but the drives are no longer recognised by a computer. What is the best way to recover the data?
 
When installing one drive a pin bent in, when I turned on the computer it killed the drive. Now just with power the drive makes annoying beeping sounds.

Another hard drive has a burnt out transistor. I think the power supply was faulty (was a cheap one) and surged the drive. Ive now bought a good quality antec PSU.

Another drive when plugged in crashes the computer before it can enter BIOS. I have no idea why this one died.

EDIT: Im pretty sure its a controller issue. Unlikely the heads are faulty.
 
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The one that crashes before bios has the most important data on and is also the biggest. Ill try the hard drive enclosure to see if I can get the data.

Ive just bought a 74GB raptor, so I hope this will be a more stable drive than my old IDE drives.
 
I bought a 3.5" Sumvision external enclosure. I cant seem to get the drivers properly installed. The USB device is recognised as a "USB Mass Storage Device" for a few seconds and then it doesnt show in device manager anymore.

Either my hard drive doesnt work in the enclosure either, or the drivers for my enclosure are not compatible with my computer.

This is getting to be a bit annoying.
 
Yep Im using XP, I think I bought an old enclousure, so I think I will return it tomorrow. Looks like I may not be able to get the data off my drive after all, well unless I pay a company to do it for me. Speaking of which, how much does it cost to get someone to manually retrieve data?
 
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