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Non QPR - Hard Disk Data Recovery Help? on 12:08 - Feb 11 by WrightUp5hit___
Maybe a bit OCD but these days I run a cloud backup, of my NAS box, which has a backup section of my PC's photos and docs
Believe me - I'll be backing up my back up and also looking to invest in a bigger cloud from hereon in. It's all great having everything as digital format these days but when it goes, Jeeze you realise what a pickle you can be in.
Anyone recommend a good PC Repair service in Ealing / West End???
Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal
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Non QPR - Hard Disk Data Recovery Help? on 14:21 - Feb 11 with 4101 views
Pc world may be able to recover the data on your disk. They did this for my mother in law after her hard disk got accidentally formatted. (Quick formats don't erase the data - just removes the indices to that data). But at PC world you'll need to get a good techy as I know more than most of the muppets they employ.
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Non QPR - Hard Disk Data Recovery Help? on 17:33 - Feb 11 with 4031 views
I had a Western Digital external USB drive start to behave strangely recently (my fault as I had dropped it). I only had movies on that drive, so it wasn't a matter of life and death, and I didn't get it recovered in the end, but I ended up looking on Youtube for stuff about data recovery.
The Youtube video link below shows why data recovery can be so expensive. A common problem with dropped drives is that the heads that read the disks have got damaged, so the data recovery company has to find exactly the same model, and replace the damaged heads on the problem hard drive with heads from the same model. (If you don't have time to watch the whole thing see 7:30-8:00 for photographs of damaged heads). The guy who made the video also recommends not trying to power up damaged hard drives.
I think you need to use a dedicated data recovery company (rather than a PC corner shop) as the drive has to be opened in a clean room (if it needs to be opened).
Non QPR - Hard Disk Data Recovery Help? on 17:33 - Feb 11 by Lblock
I’m going to try a small independent in W13 first
Checking PC World they have a minimum charge of £60.00 I’ve no idea if that’s the going rate or not
Once again thanks for all responses
Next week..... “C-90 cassette tapes - why can’t I play them on my iPod?”
Data recovery charges can vary enormously. I've known people pay £300+ for a hard drive recovery.
I would avoid PCWorld, just because of the many stories I've heard about them rather than experience.
Your problem could be a quick fix or a total nightmare. If it just stopped working - say, interrupting a large file transfer which scambled it, perhaps it's easy. If you dropped it or it suffered a power outage in use, then it could be more longwinded.
I guess you have the choice of opting for a service which offers a flat rate recovery fee, or paying by the hour.
I guess anyone technically adept at sorting this kind of thing out is going to be on £60 per hour minimum.
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Non QPR - Hard Disk Data Recovery Help? on 14:49 - Feb 12 with 3764 views
Couple of things worth a try before paying the professionals to recover data.
1. Leave the HDD in the freezer overnight then try it in the morning, I've recovered data off company HDD's several times using this method.
2. Boot the PC with a Linux based Boot CD such as Ubuntu, the Linux platform seems better at seeingrecovering data from drives having issues over Windows, just need to mount the drive and see if you can see the files available, if so mount a USB pen etc and copy them over.
worth a shot
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Non QPR - Hard Disk Data Recovery Help? on 23:13 - Feb 12 with 3675 views
Connect your usb external drive to your hard drive (its called making a slave drive. Youtube it) then boot your pc into DOS mode. Then if it picks up your external drive there is a dos command to transfer from your external drive to your C:/ drive. I think rem is the move command to transfer
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Non QPR - Hard Disk Data Recovery Help? on 23:33 - Feb 12 with 3664 views
It's a brilliant tool. I had an external hard drive go corrupt a few months ago and it managed to recover about 98% of the files on the corrupt drive. Luckily for me, the small number of files it couldn't recover I had a copy of on my laptop. There is also a good support forum.
Anyway just a quick update to confirm I now have all my data back Took it to a shop on Northfields Avenue and for the princely sum of £78 he recovered everything Unfortunately none of it is filed so I have a good couple of months of labelling and putting into folders to do
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