Comments on: How to Recover Data From a Broken Hard Drive http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/ Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:51:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pablo Garcia http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/comment-page-8/#comment-36357 Pablo Garcia Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:27:39 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/#comment-36357 Hi Janice:
Nobody said the condensation occurred inside the drive.

]]> By: Janice http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/comment-page-8/#comment-36065 Janice Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:51:05 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/#comment-36065 Reducing the temperature of a drive, and then letting it get back to room-temperature will NOT cause “water” or “condensation” inside.

HDs are sealed. Anything that’s already inside… will always be there. They do NOT put water inside the drives when they make them.

HD temperatures change all the time…. during every use… year after year.
It’s normal.
They don’t suddenly fill with water.

]]> By: Pablo Garcia http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/comment-page-8/#comment-31064 Pablo Garcia Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:40:07 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/#comment-31064 Hi Judah: It might be a necessity. That is the problem with buying the PCB board that it has to be exactly like yours including firmware, etc.

]]> By: Judah http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/comment-page-8/#comment-31047 Judah Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:32:14 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/#comment-31047 I want to verify that I’m at the end of my rope. I got the blue screen of death one day and could not boot the laptop up again. It said did not have a bootable device. I did drive diagnostics using bios utilities (HP laptop) and it got to 40% and told me to replace the drive. The drive is a Western Digital. I bought a new drive and an external enclosure. When the drive spins up in the external enclosure it starts to read and then stops and tells me to reformat. It will even try twice sometimes, but if I go into disk utilities it does not recognize any drive except my replacement. I downloaded Recover My Disk and it does not see the drive. I tried putting the drive in the second slot. The bios looks like it recognizes there is a drive but when I attempt to do diagnostics it just sits at zero. Because of the position of the drive (board down) it makes clicking noises while in the laptop. When I use it externally I put the board up and don’t get any noise except when it terminates attempt to read. The drive does continue to spin. I have not tried replacing board or freezing the drive. Should I bother? I have congregational financial data, so I have to recover (I was using my backup drive for another purpose, won’t do that again :( ). If I freeze can it still be recovered if it does not work?

]]> By: Dimitra http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/comment-page-8/#comment-30464 Dimitra Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:38:59 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/#comment-30464 Thanks very much for the answer.
I hope that Racuva or Photorec will work!
Thanks again!

]]> By: Pablo Garcia http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/comment-page-8/#comment-30463 Pablo Garcia Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:18:58 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/#comment-30463 Hi Wahida: Again… Provided you hard drive is healthy you can use Recuva or Photorec to recover your files, Both programs are free and reliable.

]]> By: Pablo Garcia http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/comment-page-8/#comment-30460 Pablo Garcia Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:05:20 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/#comment-30460 Hi Malama:
In order for you to be able to access your files you need to log into Windows 7 with Administrator rights and “take ownership” of the folder you are trying to access.

]]> By: Pablo Garcia http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/comment-page-8/#comment-30459 Pablo Garcia Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:04:07 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/#comment-30459 Hi Dimitra
Sounds like you have a corrupt filesystem. Use Racuva or Photorec to recover your files.

]]> By: Pablo Garcia http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/comment-page-8/#comment-30458 Pablo Garcia Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:55:41 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/#comment-30458 HI Akashlina:
If you see the drive as a drive letter in windows try using Recuva or Photorec to recover your files.

]]> By: Pablo Garcia http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/comment-page-8/#comment-30457 Pablo Garcia Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:52:29 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/storage/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-hard-drive/#comment-30457 Hi Martin, never heard of that before. But a quick search in Google returned this:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/files-on-external-drive-have-changed-to-shortcuts/695db4cc-645f-4bd1-85c7-41671457fe11

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