Need Data Recovery Advice

aerturun · 8 Sep 2019 at 20:31

Hi Everyone,

My hdd is broken.. not seems by pc. But sometimes (testdisk) reach it. But i want to read data in it.

I found same pcb. Have to i swap bios chip?

edscdk · 8 Sep 2019 at 20:33

I've done it a few times in theory you might get some corrupt filrs without swapping the bios but always been OK... Just copy data off and don't reuse the drive

edscdk · 8 Sep 2019 at 20:34

Usually your data only uses a few % of the drive so not much chance of any of your files having remapped sectors in..

aerturun · 8 Sep 2019 at 20:40

edscdk said:
I've done it a few times in theory you might get some corrupt filrs without swapping the bios but always been OK... Just copy data off and don't reuse the drive

I cant read my data. (it 1.5gb photos and videos of my children) and there is no backup. This hdd for the backup actually..
I want to find some way to reach my data. And seagate is not interested in. Because warranty label is removed.

EssexBoy · 8 Sep 2019 at 20:44

Send to data recovery specialist imo as playing about with it only makes it worse if it's something you not done before.

Who to use i can't say as i have not got in that situation yet good luck.

aerturun · 8 Sep 2019 at 20:45

EssexBoy said:
Send to data recovery specialist imo as playing about with it only makes it worse if it's something you not done before.

Who to use i can't say as i have not got in that situation yet good luck.

Thank your advice.

sideways14a · 8 Sep 2019 at 20:56

Only real choice is to send it to a data recovery company, expect a big bill.

aerturun · 8 Sep 2019 at 21:04

sideways14a said:
Only real choice is to send it to a data recovery company, expect a big bill.

I met some companies in my country (Turkey)... Firstly they are talking about money but there are no pix of their labs. how can i trust them. (They dont give any guarantee)
Some global countries are not to work with me becouse of some shipping issues. And badly i am not rich