Hard Drive crashed. Recovery advice?

[Brett N Colorado]

Last week my laptop hard drive wnet kablueie... Blue screen then kernal and sys32 file not found errors.
I purchsed an interface cable that allowed me to remove the drive use it as an external drive to attempt to recover some files which I did. Now though I get constant I/O read errors and cannot access the drive at all. Is there any freeware or shareware that you folks have used that may be able to get it working enough to pull some files from it ?? I know it's pretty much toast but if I could recover enough to get a few more important files it would make my life easier.

Thanks Brett

[JeepWheelin02]

Dont know of any freeware or shareware that will do it, but I have a few programs capable of doing that. If you ever make it down to the Springs I could get you the software or do it for you.

[OrangeCrush]

but if the hardware cant be accessed good luck with any peice of hardware, I have used some hardrive recovery services in the past quite successfully. They basically put he platters on new circuit boards and access it.

[forum]

but if the hardware cant be accessed good luck with any peice of hardware, I have used some hardrive recovery services in the past quite successfully. They basically put he platters on new circuit boards and access it.


That is pretty pricey isn't it? I can't imagine it would be worth it unless it is some irreplaceable data, which it more than likely isn't or it *should* be backed up.

[ni0h]

Rebuild and restore from backup. Too bad nobody makes laptops with dual hard drive bays.... though nobody backs up, so I'm sure they'd just use the second hard drive as extra space.

[Brett N Colorado]

I have most of my stuff backed up from about a month ago. The problem is there were couple root files and macro files that were specific in an excel program that I did not get and there was an address book file that I somehow missed. That one hurts the most as many contacts were lost.

Some items I didn't know how too backup properly so even though I did get the main directory, some of the pointer or authorization files did not get backed up so I have no permissions to use them (Microsoft outlook and Visio) are 2 examples of that.

Live and learn. I'll make sure I know what to backup next time and probably do a twice weekly auto run of my entire system from now on once I figure out how to do that. I have a huge drive on my network now just for taht reason.

Thanks for the posts so far.
Brett