RE: [OT] Recovering Data from HD

["Sullivan, Glenn" <gsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good idea (wrapping with the cables/power extension lead attached).

I've always just kind of hung the frozen drive outside the tower, PCB
down... Let the condensation come off it outside the PC.

Standard "If-you-FUBAR-your-computer-don't-come-to-me" disclaimer
applies of course...


Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I  MCDBA
David Clark Company Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:36 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Recovering Data from HD


Do make sure you seal it really tightly in plastic though and keep it on
when you power up (wrap it with the cables attached if poss) - you'll
get loads of condensation forming quite rapidly on the cold metal
otherwise (as I did - although the water luckily didn't short anything -
mind you, this trick didn't work for me though).

Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: Sullivan, Glenn [mailto:gsullivan@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 19 January 2005 15:09
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Recovering Data from HD


If you are going to get it replaced under warranty, and you choice is
either try what you can to get the data, or forfeit the data completely,
the freezer trick is your best bet.

Put the whole drive in a plastic bag with a couple silica packets, and
let it sit overnight.

In the morning, pull it out and immediately slap it into a known good PC
as a secondary hard drive.

If it works, you will at least have partial data access (I've always had
it work perfectly, as long as the drive stayed spinning.  Once I shut
the machine down, it was toast for good).  If it doesn't work you still
have an unmodified, dead drive which has not been opened or had it's
warranty voided at all.

It is the best "last resort" going...

HTH,

Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I  MCDBA
David Clark Company Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ho Yin Ng [mailto:yahoogroups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 6:26 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Recovering Data from HD


Yeah done that .. put it in a firewire caddy .. but it still will not
mount.

As for the ice cube trick .. I'll give that a miss .. it is not my HD
and I don't want to take it too the extreme .. just incase ..

Otherwise I might void his warranty.

:-)

Thanks anyway!

Ho yin

At 11:14 19/01/2005, you wrote:

>I bought a product called R-Studio. (www.r-tt.com)
>
>If the disc spins still this should read it.
>
>It will also read "foreign media" in XP / 2000.
>
>I usually stick it into a USB caddy and boot up on a normal OS. Rstudio

>will then scan the disk and you can then copy the files off.
>
>HTH
>
>Neil
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: yahoogroups@xxxxxxx [mailto:yahoogroups@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 19 January 2005 10:32
>To: UKha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Recovering Data from HD
>
>
>I was wondering what equipment do people at data recovery centres use
>to recover data from dead hard disks?
>
>Is it something I can purchase and do at home?
>
>Regards,
>
>Ho yin