My damn harddisk

[Jhon]

Hello. About 13 days ago, my harddisk died (or that's what they told me)... It's a 500GB SATA, forgot its brand. What happened is that I used my PC as usual, switched down, went to sleep, went out after waking up and then when I came back the PC'd stay stuck in the BIOS screen for about 1 minute, and then it wouldn't boot at all. I entered the BIOS setup and it wasn't detecting my harddisk anymore, which means the PC would try the second device to boot (in this case the LAN adapter), which of course will always fail.

Thing is I tried it in another PC, same shit, took it to some technicians and they told me the disk was dead, no PC would recognize it anymore. I still don't know why the fuck did that happen if the last time I used the PC it was working perfectly.

Now my question is, I know that the information is still saved in the disk, so, is there any chance that someone with a special machine or something can get the info back from that disk? I don't give a fuck about the actual one or buying another, all I care about now is the information I could have lost. Thanks 

[Carcass]

there are disk recovery companies but they aren't cheap. If only the logic board (chip) on the HDD failed then you can try and swap it with a working on from another HDD (much be the same model/firmware). If the inside mechanics failed then thats more complicated. Although if you are able to repair the HDD, the data may be damaged/corrupted anyway 

[WLproxy]

There are some weird ways to repair your hard disk. Once when I got a broken hard disk from a costumer that really needed it's data back, I went to do some research and someone told me I should put in in the freezer for 2 hours. So I first thought he was kidding, but since it was my last option I just tried it. And suddenly the hard disk worked again for a short time. Long enough for me copying the data on an other hard disk.

If that doesn't work you're probably fuckerd. Or you can as Carcass says go to a data recovery company, but as he stated, this isn't cheap. It's more something for company's and shit.

[Jhon]

Ah fuck well... I'll try the freezer thing first, if that doesn't work I'll try changing the disk's chip, and then as a last resource one of these recovery companies. Fucking frustrating that the lazy cunt decided to stop working all of a sudden for no apparent reason .__. Next time I'll get an external HDD too.

[Unbreak]

hahaha pwned!

[Nanook]

I just called DriveSavers Data Recovery for you and got a quick quote. It's anywhere from $700 to $3900 USD to get your data back, depending on the complexity of the recovery and service option you choose.

They have an option for you to send them a drive and they'll run an analysis on it. Once they do that, they will contact you with a firm price and ask whether you would like to continue on with the recovery. If not, they'll send the drive back to you without charging for their services (not sure about return shipping, since you're out of the US). Also, if they are unable to recover the data, they won't charge you.

Good luck!

[Maka]

I just called DriveSavers Data Recovery for you and got a quick quote. It's anywhere from $700 to $3900 USD to get your data back, depending on the complexity of the recovery and service option you choose.

They have an option for you to send them a drive and they'll run an analysis on it. Once they do that, they will contact you with a firm price and ask whether you would like to continue on with the recovery. If not, they'll send the drive back to you without charging for their services (not sure about return shipping, since you're out of the US). Also, if they are unable to recover the data, they won't charge you.

Good luck!

Woah, freaking 700 to 3900 USD? Jesus Christ I'd say that isn't worth it.

[Blackbean]

Woah, freaking 700 to 3900 USD? Jesus Christ I'd say that isn't worth it.

I was about to say that

[Beethi]

That's what happens when you have an oldass harddisk computer. . . 

[WLproxy]

Woah, freaking 700 to 3900 USD? Jesus Christ I'd say that isn't worth it.

For some music and movies not, but for a company that lost valuable data due a hard drive failure it's nothing. There are still a lot of companies that don't backup there files regularly.