(HELP) Data Recovery From My Hard Drive

Jordan777 · 8 May 2013 at 17:48

Got a bit of a issue .. me being me i dropped my laptop today (knee cap down on the floor) and buggered the hard drive. Getting message " No operating system" before it shows windows screen. Anyway re seated the hard drive and nothing

Have taken the hard drive out and connect it to my main machine and getting nothing either sees it in the Bios but not loading or even able to run as a slave. Anyone on here live in the cheshire area or could recommend anywhere i could take it to recovery the data of it ... got pictures holidays and personal data on it ... and yes before you ask i did not back it up (duuuhhhh stupid me i know )

cheers for your help or any ideas

quickshot89 · 8 May 2013 at 18:16

Get yourself a copy of Hirens boot cd and try the recovery suites on it. I've had various levels of success with it

hlxbravo · 8 May 2013 at 19:44

I am using, as I type, Active@ File Recovery For Windows. As I have an external HDD with pretty much the same as yourself on it, photo's, video's and all my music, which stays permanently powered on (never has before) and it's making a significant clicking/noisy whirr sound. Windows cannot see it apart from wanting to format it

I tried Macrium Reflect with no luck and also another one I saw mentioned on here(forget the name), again with no luck.

Anyway I managed to get the photo's off it the other day

...just waiting for it to complete my music library.

Stelly · 8 May 2013 at 19:45

Hey,

I have been told that putting it in the freezer then making an image backup of the disk straight after taking it out might work

Stelly

hlxbravo · 9 May 2013 at 06:36

Stelly said:
Hey,

I have been told that putting it in the freezer then making an image backup of the disk straight after taking it out might work

Stelly

I might give the above a try soon...I am losing patience with my recovery, it's been running 16hrs or so and it says it's at 54% at present, it's only a 40gb model too, of which maybe 30gb is music :rolleyes:

hlxbravo said:
......Anyway I managed to get the photo's off it the other day ...just waiting for it to complete my music library.

I could probably have cut the time down had I selected individual artist folders, as some of it is stored elsewhere (phones/tablet/iPod) just easier to select the whole music folder...oh well I shall give it 24 hours more, then that's it.

@Jordan777 - have you had any success yet? I know the feeling when you think you may have lost all your precious memories, a lesson in backup for all of us