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need help fixing an external hard drive
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2019-09-12 at 12:16 AM UTC
Originally posted by Grimace Almost certainly this requires a professional data recovery lab that specializes in physically damaged hard drives. I have a recommendation in Atlanta, GA as well as one in Toronto if you are interested.
last I checked physical recovery was generally way too expensive for personal files -
2019-09-12 at 12:23 AM UTCDid one of the jumpers fly off when it dropped?
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2019-09-12 at 12:32 AM UTCI don't think anyone actually uses the jumpers anymore, bios/uefi autodetects it
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2019-09-12 at 12:45 AM UTCI'd put it on another machine as a slave and try to access the contents from there with Tiramisu. Tiramisu can usually read dead drives.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/data_recovery/tira32.htm
TIRAMISU scans the drive even when there are physical damages. The found data are analyzed and reconstructed. TIRAMISU can handle drives without readable boot sector, readable Fat or readable directories. It can handle drives that are not recognized by DOS anymore.
TIRAMISU automatically creates a VIRTUAL DRIVE in memory. This virtual drive looks like a usual file manager. You can see the lost directories and files of your crashed drive. Now files and directories can be viewed and copied to a safe medium.
The extensive use of our sophisticated pattern recognition technology enables TIRAMISU to put the right pieces of data together again. Even disks with very few administrative informations left can reach a high recovery quality.
TIRAMISU recovers much more data than any other 'disk doctor'.
TIRAMISU is NON DESTRUCTIVE and READ ONLY. It does not put any data onto your crashed drive. Recovered data are restored to another destination (disk, diskette, network, interlink).
TIRAMISU works on WIN95 rel. B platforms with 32-bit Fat.
Versions for DOS/WINDOWS (16-Bit Fat), NOVELL and NTFS are available too. -
2019-09-12 at 4:01 AM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL I'd put it on another machine as a slave and try to access the contents from there with Tiramisu. Tiramisu can usually read dead drives.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/data_recovery/tira32.htm
TIRAMISU scans the drive even when there are physical damages. The found data are analyzed and reconstructed. TIRAMISU can handle drives without readable boot sector, readable Fat or readable directories. It can handle drives that are not recognized by DOS anymore.
TIRAMISU automatically creates a VIRTUAL DRIVE in memory. This virtual drive looks like a usual file manager. You can see the lost directories and files of your crashed drive. Now files and directories can be viewed and copied to a safe medium.
The extensive use of our sophisticated pattern recognition technology enables TIRAMISU to put the right pieces of data together again. Even disks with very few administrative informations left can reach a high recovery quality.
TIRAMISU recovers much more data than any other 'disk doctor'.
TIRAMISU is NON DESTRUCTIVE and READ ONLY. It does not put any data onto your crashed drive. Recovered data are restored to another destination (disk, diskette, network, interlink).
TIRAMISU works on WIN95 rel. B platforms with 32-bit Fat.
Versions for DOS/WINDOWS (16-Bit Fat), NOVELL and NTFS are available too.
he needs something more kawaii, like this.
https://osdn.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/downloads/71535/CrystalDiskInfo8_3_0Shizuku.exe/ -
2019-09-12 at 12:10 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra last I checked physical recovery was generally way too expensive for personal files
Yeah, it usually is, in my opinion anyway. The ones I personally recommend and have used have ranges. Some as low as $350. Still too high for me personally, but not necessarily for others.
To what is not worth it to one, others will pay whatever the cost is to retrieve the data. Some people think pictures of their dead family dog from when they were a child are priceless. -
2019-09-12 at 12:20 PM UTCI already have cyrstaldiskmark, are the two similar?
