hard drive dead...need help!

[kambell soup]

Hi,

I have an issue with a hard drive that has been corrupted. While I was moving some data to a different drive, my wife hit cancel...many times...she may even have right clicked and them left-clicked some more...I'm not sure because I wasn't there at the time.

When I got home, the drive was frozen, and had been for some time. I turned off the computer at the power button, and then turned it back on. The drive registered, but said there was no data on it. I was told that 'the perimeter was incorrect'. I disconnected it and gave it to a friend who knows a lot more about computers than I do to see if he could recover the information on it. At first the drive registered on his computer and he ran a recovery program and it found a few bit of data, but then it stopped registering. Now the drive won't display on any computer. I have swapped cables and USB ports but is the same every time. There is a faint whirring noise when the drive is connected for 2 or 3 seconds, then nothing.

Stupidly enough, the data wasn't backed up. It would be really good if I could get it back.

Does anyone out there have any suggestions? I have downloaded some recovery programs, but since the drive doesn't show up in the registry, they don't/won't/can't help.

Any advice offered would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Max

 

[prince_xaine]

Not to be that person - sounds like your SOL. If the drive won't spin up, there's not much you can do to recover the data on it.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Try finding same exact motherboard of hdd if you wanna a shot to recover data.
Same firmware and model.
If you live in europe, there's german store with a lot of hdd replacements.

 

[kerberos_20]

motherboard with not help with that "noise", that noise isnt good (physical damage), either heads are damaged or plates have scratches..either way, pricing on typical hard drive recovery cost ranges can run anywhere from $49 to $1500

 

[Rdslw]

DEAD HDD is quite simple. If electronics died replacement ones are easy and cheap. If its mechanical failure then its over 500$ to recover anything and no guarantees.
your sound like mechanical one, as drive was responsive and died mid-work without distinct no response.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Well as he has computer tech guy as friend, he might recover data, not all but the critical ones, its the most cheapest option to try replacing exact same hdd mobo, price ranges from 10$ to what I saw most expensive 100$?
But this is only an suggestion.

 

[kambell soup]

Thanks for the suggestions folks.

I have a found a possible solution, it is a big possible, but, one of my private student's husband is a lecturer at the local IT uni...

fingers crossed...

Cheers