Comments on: Hard Drive Recovery FAQs

By: Donald Sublett

Donald Sublett — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:08:38 +0000

Can you please explain a usb enclosure? Never have connected a hard drive with out slaving it. I have the hard drive out and on my desk. Will I not some type of cable?

Thank you for your response.

By: Michael Stankard

Michael Stankard — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:47:17 +0000

Donald, you can try to put it in a usb enclosure. If it is seen, but the system wants to format it or isn’t showing correct capacity, let me know and I will give you some software to fix it.

By: Donald Sublett

Donald Sublett — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:01:39 +0000

I have an old HP Pavilon computer with a Western Digital WD800 Enhanced IDE hard drive. The computer just will not turn on. Something appears to have happened to the power board at the plug in on the computer. I think the hard drive is good and I have taken it out of the machine. How can I recover the files on the drive. I can not slave it to my other computer, it is fairly new and there are no strips to use or slots to plug into on the CPU board.

Any suggestions?

By: Donna

Donna — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:43:01 +0000

My question is regarding the cost of recovery. My hard drive had a physical failure and there is one or two files that I would like to recover if posssible. Is the cost of recovery a flat rate or based on the number of files?

Thank you

By: Jacqui Best

Jacqui Best — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:23:40 +0000

E.Miller,

You would have to send the drive to our clean room for us to assess the hard drive damage. More then likely the files will be able to be recovered.

By: E. Miller

E. Miller — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:37:39 +0000

My Gateway desktop computer would not turn on at all…I took it to a computer repair shop that told me my hard drive was making clicking sounds and therefore no more good…from your information above, it seems as though it is a “physical failure”…I believe the hard drive is about 40GB…how difficult would it be to recover the files on it?

By: Michael Stankard

Michael Stankard — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:43:12 +0000

Lal, what type of RAID were you creating, RAID 0, 1, software or were you using a controller?

By: Lal Rozuala

Lal Rozuala — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:35:53 +0000

I tried to create RAId in my hard disk. Unfortunately it was not completed due to power failure. Then I lost all my data which I very important for me. Is there any way to recover the files with their folders

By: iTropics

iTropics — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:00:57 +0000

Hello d Colonna…
If your screen went blank, you might have a video problem. You can try to fix the MBR http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/ntldrmissingxp.htm or remove the hard drive and connect it to a working PC to retrieve your files.

By: d colonna

d colonna — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:13:26 +0000

I have a laptop compaq presario 2100 with windows 2000 xp professional. The screen went blank (dark) and it will no longer boot up. I have Microsoft word text files and pictures on it I need to recover. How can I recover these files?

By: Data Recovery Solution

Data Recovery Solution — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:41:51 +0000

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