Q. I have a Seagate 500 GB/7200rpm something or other hard drive that suffered trauma when the Macbook it was in hit the ground. The drive is like 2 years old. I sent it to Data Recovery Labs and they quoted $1690 to recover the data. Surely there must be an alternative that *normal* people can afford? Any tips?
What do you mean by "freezing it"?
But can this be done if the dead computer can't even be booted?
What do you mean by "freezing it"?
But can this be done if the dead computer can't even be booted?
A. Freezing it is a little trick that will sometimes make the hard drive operable.
All you have to do is put it in the freezer overnite and then in the morning simply install it in a slave situation to a master hard drive and many times the drive will be accessable and you can transfer the data from it to a Flash drive or to the Master Hard Drive.
If you know someone that is into computers they may be able to do it for you.
BTW, freezing the hard drive will not damage it.
All you have to do is put it in the freezer overnite and then in the morning simply install it in a slave situation to a master hard drive and many times the drive will be accessable and you can transfer the data from it to a Flash drive or to the Master Hard Drive.
If you know someone that is into computers they may be able to do it for you.
BTW, freezing the hard drive will not damage it.
What are some good companies to recover data from hard disk?
Q. I need a data recovery from my SATA hard drive that failed. Can't get data back. Had a recovery, but some important (sentimental) video files were not on recovery. I think it's still there on the failed disk that I removed but kept.
Question is, are there any reputable companies that I can send my disk and have them recover all the data on that disk? Especially pictures and videos. I figure it'll cost a lot, but I want the data if it's still there.
Thanks for any advice.
Question is, are there any reputable companies that I can send my disk and have them recover all the data on that disk? Especially pictures and videos. I figure it'll cost a lot, but I want the data if it's still there.
Thanks for any advice.
A. DNSSOFT Technology Inc is advanced data recovery company commited to develop data recovery software,supply data recovery services.
http://www.diskgetor.com/hard-disk-data-recovery.htm
http://www.diskgetor.com/hard-disk-data-recovery.htm
So I bought a used hard drive, ran some data recovery software, found stuff - is this illegal?
Q. So I just used some free data recovery software on the used harddrive, and I found out it looks like a guy who owned the hard drive worked as some computer tech guy for a small-medium company. He managed a huge spreadsheet of 534 product keys to various high end software products. He also had lots of pictures of his family, and some other documents relating to wherever he was working. Looked like proprietary information... Is this illegal what I have done? And I do plan to wipe it with dban some time the next few days - I am not going to sell the product keys or anything haha.
A. It's what you do with the data that might make you a criminal, not accessing the data itself.
The moron who didn't wipe the drive (with DBAN or some other drive-wiping software) should be spanked for his egregious error.
You should write to the company and get that idiot fired (unless he let this happen to get even with the company for something that he feels the company did to him that wasn't right, just, or fair).
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Of course, the hard drive might have been from a stolen computer. The original seller might have been a thief, or might have gotten it from a thief. It's impossible to know without involving the authorities.
You should just DBAN it and be done with this issue.
The moron who didn't wipe the drive (with DBAN or some other drive-wiping software) should be spanked for his egregious error.
You should write to the company and get that idiot fired (unless he let this happen to get even with the company for something that he feels the company did to him that wasn't right, just, or fair).
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Of course, the hard drive might have been from a stolen computer. The original seller might have been a thief, or might have gotten it from a thief. It's impossible to know without involving the authorities.
You should just DBAN it and be done with this issue.
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