Data on dead hard drive

[Old_Bob]

Are there any methods for reclaiming data from a hard drive that has ceased to function, looks and sounds ok but none of my pcs recognise it when i fit it. I would like to get back about 15 Gigs of mp3 music files

I dunno how.



Old (frustrated) Bob

[lawnmower]

think norton had something like that ??? not positive thou ask mijack he seems to be a pc bod

[MjJack]

if it spins, try a little application called Bart XP,

its XP on a cd,

When you start the pc it will boot from the CD (no the HDD) and give you all the functionality as if your OS was working. The old HDD, should show up as a harddrive in my computer, As it would on a normal OS boot.

As the disk is not called upon to run the os, ALL the data is present, and ready to be copied off.

then all you do is bang in an external USB memory stick/hard drive and just copy the info across.

[boogiefool]

Originally Posted by MjJack

if it spins, try a little application called Bart XP,

its XP on a cd,

When you start the pc it will boot from the CD (no the HDD) and give you all the functionality as if your OS was working. The old HDD, should show up as a harddrive in my computer, As it would on a normal OS boot.

As the disk is not called upon to run the os, ALL the data is present, and ready to be copied off.

then all you do is bang in an external USB memory stick/hard drive and just copy the info across.

I was going to say that

[MjJack]

its the best Admin tool i have ever used.. Cool

[Batman]

Originally Posted by boogiefool

I was going to say that

Hey, are you a PC guru or what? ;)

Batman

[boogiefool]

Originally Posted by Batman

Hey, are you a PC guru or what? ;)

Batman

Fnargh! I don't think so. It was a poor attempt at humour

[Batman]

Originally Posted by boogiefool

Fnargh! I don't think so. It was a poor attempt at humour

Oh! Ok then.

Batman































;);););););)

[Hawkeye]

If the disc spins but you can't read it you could swap over the boards from two identical drives, this helps sometimes.

If it cant be seen by the bios on boot then it dont lok good. I just lost around 100gig of data, had to grin and bare it unfortunatley.

Norton used to have a great app called Norton Disc Doctor, it would find all the bad sectors move the data from them to good sectors and make the bad one unusable.

You retrieved your data, binned the disc and you had big smiles, unfortunatley they do not imclude it in their package now.

The big thing is if the bios see's it, you stand a fair chance then

[S.T.Chapman]

theres a fair chance that as your going to or allready have fitted a new hdd then if you put the old one one on the second ide plug, then you may be able to retrieve something that way?
at the end of the day it wont cost anything to try