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How do i get data off of a broken hard drive?
xar256:
Depending on just how bad the circuit board is damaged...Try a program called Getdataback.
shmokes:
Before you tear that sucker apart or lay down $500 on that, try to hook it up as a secondary/slave drive in another computer. If you're just looking at data corruption making the OS unbootable you'll still be able to access the drive just fine as long as you're not booting to it. Does your BIOS even recognize the presence of a drive?
Sephroth57:
well it was the slave drive, i used it for all my media storage. It doesnt click, or make any weird noises, i know on my other HD theres a green light that blinks when it boots up, i dunno if my other HD has a light but looking at the light on my other one its so small its barely noticeable. So if there is one its not turning on, i just think the HD isnt even powering up, but im sure the data on it will be fine. Windows/Bios doesnt even know its hooked up
RetroJames:
I had a similar issue except my drive froze, just wouldn't turn. I tried a bunch of things but eventually I was able to recover files from another drive (I had just backed up my data via cut and paste from one drive to the one that then failed). I am keeping the drive as I know there is still data on it that I will want in future (baby pics) with the hope that HD recovery services drop in price sometime in the future.
danny_galaga:
send it to the CIA. theyll get everythng off it ;D :police: