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20-10-10, 12:06 AM
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Broken external hard drive
A mate has an external hard drive with loads of music and photos on. Unfortunately it has given up on him. Is there a way of retrieving the contents?
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20-10-10, 12:15 AM
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Re: Broken external hard drive
Yes but not cheap.
Is it the power supply or the drive itself? If it's just the power supply it's a simple job of just plugging it into a pc or another external body. If it's the drive, that's where it can get costly. |
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20-10-10, 04:21 AM
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Re: Broken external hard drive
As far as I know it's the drive.
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20-10-10, 07:22 AM
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Re: Broken external hard drive
chances are it could be the enclosure, does it make any ticking noises when running or it is quiet and simply will not read?
What sort of drive is it? (ie big - the size of a cdrom drive, or Small - the size/smaller of a floppy disk drive) |
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20-10-10, 08:46 AM
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Re: Broken external hard drive
If its a standard hard drive in an enclosure, i.e. not a solid state, likely that the bearings are knacked so it wont spin up any more. I have heard that putting the drive in a freezer can bring it back to life temporarily, possibly long enough to get some stuff off it.
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20-10-10, 12:29 PM
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Re: Broken external hard drive
Tony - these guys are friends of mine and can almost certainly help:
Hard drive data recovery from Kingdom Data Recovery Give them a bell and I'm sure they'll keep you right. JM |
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20-10-10, 01:07 PM
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Re: Broken external hard drive
a "friend" ?
"special" stuff on the hard drive.. take it to the police they will get it off it in minutes..
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