Calling fellow computer geeks

[mushroom 14,284]

Although I have quite a high geek factor with computers I'm up against a problem that like the matrix has very big ramifications in the real world The hard drive that's been giving up for about six months and had the mrs on and on at me to sort it. Well it has proper given up with all the photos of our new daughter plus all the latest family photos on it and a hell of a lot of other stuff Does anyone know of any way I can get the data off the disk??? It's a seagate barracuda 40 gb using a connector ultra ATA (yes it's old) It's so old it's been nowhere near a SATA let alone a SATA2 which I've been out to purchase today (2tb sata2 blah blah )

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

Kieran

[dog fox 16]

Although I have quite a high geek factor with computers I'm up against a problem that like the matrix has very big ramifications in the real world The hard drive that's been giving up for about six months and had the mrs on and on at me to sort it. Well it has proper given up with all the photos of our new daughter plus all the latest family photos on it and a hell of a lot of other stuff Does anyone know of any way I can get the data off the disk??? It's a seagate barracuda 40 gb using a connector ultra ATA (yes it's old) It's so old it's been nowhere near a SATA let alone a SATA2 which I've been out to purchase today (2tb sata2 blah blah )

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

Kieran

 

pretty sure you can run it as a slave off the back of your new one ,had the same probs myself so i back everything up on photobucket now ,just in case

[stealthy1 3,964]

Dont know if this is any good to you Mushroom

 

http://www.tips4pc.com/Articles/Computer%20Troubleshooting/recover_emails_files_data_from_crashed_computer_.htm

[Guest jt750]

Not sure you could recover much from it if its totally died sorry to say

[Nik_B 3,791]

might just be the boot partition thats shagged. What dog said could be right.

[Silvertip 1]

If worst comes to worst and it means that much to you PC world will take it and the tech bloke will strip it down and recover the data from the actual disc, and put it onto another drive - its about 100 quid tho i had to do it when i dropped a portable hard drive

[mushroom 14,284]

Trust me whatever is wrong with it is mechanical, should've sorted it ages ago

 

It was the slave drive mate when it went kaput. What also happened was the master decided it had a problem aswell basically data was corrupt in the windows start up. Don't have a bloody clue why, so had to do away with both hards fortunately I've recovered the data from the master and it's now a slave.

 

Think so far Silvertip's advice is the only way B@stard £100 for photos I took

[byron 1,279]

Trust me whatever is wrong with it is mechanical, should've sorted it ages ago

 

It was the slave drive mate when it went kaput. What also happened was the master decided it had a problem aswell basically data was corrupt in the windows start up. Don't have a bloody clue why, so had to do away with both hards fortunately I've recovered the data from the master and it's now a slave.

 

Think so far Silvertip's advice is the only way B@stard £100 for photos I took

what photo card are you using..

i no with the sandisk one,s[compact flash] you can recover deleted files.

worth a google..

[mushroom 14,284]

Trust me whatever is wrong with it is mechanical, should've sorted it ages ago

 

It was the slave drive mate when it went kaput. What also happened was the master decided it had a problem aswell basically data was corrupt in the windows start up. Don't have a bloody clue why, so had to do away with both hards fortunately I've recovered the data from the master and it's now a slave.

 

Think so far Silvertip's advice is the only way B@stard £100 for photos I took

what photo card are you using..

i no with the sandisk one,s[compact flash] you can recover deleted files.

worth a google..

 

It's a hard drive mate not a card, the main memory for a computer and mines got alzheimer's mixed with a bit of nerve damage coupled with a dash of parkinson's

[Nik_B 3,791]

Can u plug it in to someone elses pc to see if u can access it ?

 

Havent you got a boot disk? You might be able to download on from the internet.

 

I thought there were cables that allowed u to plug it in to a usb and turn it in to a portable HDD.

[Nik_B 3,791]

what happens when u try to boot up?

[mushroom 14,284]

Ok I'll start again. Originally there were two hard drives in my computer (the memory that stores your pics, music etc and holds all info that windows or mac software or linux or whatever uses) One is a slave the other is a master (the master is the c: drive on your my computer) The master is the one which is booted from when you start your computer. This had a corrupt start up so basically the windows program stored on it is fooked hence it needs formatting but not before I retrieve the data stored on it (my data not windows). My slave which I store pics on and stuff is mechanicaly fooked it is clicking and making a hell of a lot of noise for no result.

 

So I have bought a new hard drive today to use as a new master, re-installed windows on it. Then plugged my old master hard drive back in as a slave then I have managed to remove all uncorrupted data off it and stored it on the new drive. The old slave will not do this the data is on it uncorrupted but physically the drive is unable to access it.

 

So I can't plug the broken hard drive into anything to retrieve owt because the drive is physically incapable of getting the data. need to remove the actual disk (it looks similar to a VHS video head) from the hard drive as this is what stores the data and get it from that somehow. Rekon it's PC World and a ton lighter tomorrow

[Nik_B 3,791]

hefty price for being a bit slack, I've been there myself.

 

These days I run a RAID array its fairly cheap to do these days.

 

Not much help at the mo though

[mushroom 14,284]

C'est la vie

[dog fox 16]

Ok I'll start again. Originally there were two hard drives in my computer (the memory that stores your pics, music etc and holds all info that windows or mac software or linux or whatever uses) One is a slave the other is a master (the master is the c: drive on your my computer) The master is the one which is booted from when you start your computer. This had a corrupt start up so basically the windows program stored on it is fooked hence it needs formatting but not before I retrieve the data stored on it (my data not windows). My slave which I store pics on and stuff is mechanicaly fooked it is clicking and making a hell of a lot of noise for no result.

 

So I have bought a new hard drive today to use as a new master, re-installed windows on it. Then plugged my old master hard drive back in as a slave then I have managed to remove all uncorrupted data off it and stored it on the new drive. The old slave will not do this the data is on it uncorrupted but physically the drive is unable to access it.

 

So I can't plug the broken hard drive into anything to retrieve owt because the drive is physically incapable of getting the data. need to remove the actual disk (it looks similar to a VHS video head) from the hard drive as this is what stores the data and get it from that somehow. Rekon it's PC World and a ton lighter tomorrow

i,d say your pretty much fecked then