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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: DJ on September 01, 2004, 23:16

Title: Knackered Hard Drive
Post by: DJ on September 01, 2004, 23:16

Hi All,

I have a IBM 80gig hard that has given up the ghost.

I can't access it through windows or dos and it makes a very loud clicky noise.  This is a slave (secondary) drive so i can still access windows but have lost a lot of data (I know I should have backed it  up!).

Anyway, can anyone recommend recovery software? I have looked at iRecover (http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/) but would rather find a cheaper alternative...

Any Suggestions? :-\

DJ

Title: Re:Knackered Hard Drive
Post by: Sandra on September 01, 2004, 23:26

You could try Easy Recovery Pro DJ but if the drive isnt spinning up I dont think anything will work without using a specialised dat recovery service  :(

Title: Re:Knackered Hard Drive
Post by: DJ on September 01, 2004, 23:31

Is that from www.ontrack.co.uk ?? I'll have a proper look in the morning.

I download the trial of irecover and it is working - not sure if the disk is spinning or not now?  iRecover will just take ages as it only lets you recover parts of the data at one time (unless I upgrade to the full version).

I suppose iRecover isn't that bad - think its bewtween $50 - $100.

DJ

Title: Re:Knackered Hard Drive
Post by: Sandra on September 01, 2004, 23:34

I think I would try easy recovery pro DJ, I have never used it myself but have heard that its very good  :)

Title: Re:Knackered Hard Drive
Post by: DJ on September 01, 2004, 23:44

Thanks Sandra  ;) :-*

Will have a proper look at it in the morning..

Off to catch some :snooze:

Thanks again

DJ

Title: Re:Knackered Hard Drive
Post by: DJ on September 02, 2004, 13:23

Easy recover pro is up and running and working like a dream, recovering my lost data.

Thanks Sandra for your efficient and helpful replies (as usual)  :-*

DJ

Title: Re:Knackered Hard Drive
Post by: Simon on September 02, 2004, 15:59

Best of luck, DJ.  It's a horrible feeling when you think you might have lost everything.