Anywhere To Recover Data From A Defunct Hd?

[Bananaman]

I've an external hard drive that decided to leap to its death from the coffee table. I'm now looking at the loss of some 300GB of data that I can seriously do without saying goodbye to. Can anyone recommend someone in CM who might be able to recover the data from the drive? (Or at least make a competent attempt at doing so.)

Cheers

[DavidOxon]

Hi

sorry to hear of your misfortune, seriously.

If you do ever manage to get your data back, can I suggest a site like

www.myotherdrive.com where you can store and access large amounts of data

for a very small monthly fee (Free if you only need their free allowance)

David

(300gb . . . that's a LOT of porn!)

Reason for edit: to add humerous PS!

Edited May 27, 2009 by DavidOxon

[piercefilmlid]

I've an external hard drive that decided to leap to its death from the coffee table. I'm now looking at the loss of some 300GB of data that I can seriously do without saying goodbye to. Can anyone recommend someone in CM who might be able to recover the data from the drive? (Or at least make a competent attempt at doing so.)

Cheers

This is something we can do (depending on level of physical damage). Unfortunately I fly to Europe first thing tomorrow morning re work and won't be back for several weeks. Is it urgent? PM me if I can assit further.

Mark

[saintofsilence]

Do a search on hard drive recovery plenty of programmes say they can recover crashed hard drives, someone with a reasonable computer knowledge could do it.

[mmcsusnret]

Depending on the type of ext. hard drive, and it receiving damage in a fall, the damage could possibly be to the case and components that support the hard drive vice to the hard drive itself. If that is the case open you can open the plastic case and use cables to hook it up to your motherboard (or have a computer shop do it) and see if you can access the drive. I had this happen to me before and it worked fine as the damage was to a printed circuit board inside the plastic case, the actual HDD was not damaged. this one used a USB connection to the computer and the way it landed forced the cable plug inwards to damage the circuit board that changes the style of connection from USB to the flat ribbon cable type of plug (unsure of the name of the type of plug. Later found another generic brand HDD case and installed the hard drive that I had thought was dead.

Edited May 27, 2009 by mmcsusnret

[commons]

I've an external hard drive that decided to leap to its death from the coffee table. I'm now looking at the loss of some 300GB of data that I can seriously do without saying goodbye to. Can anyone recommend someone in CM who might be able to recover the data from the drive? (Or at least make a competent attempt at doing so.)

Cheers

yes. i do recommend "mtek computer". owner is thai, khun kasem, he speaks english. they do notebook repair & recovery --- yes, sometimes they do apple-notebooks too he studied engineering. i know him since ab 5 years. if there's a decent computer technician in chiang mai --- it's him.

shop is not far away from central kad suan kaew. there are these 2 main it shopping-malls on outer side of moat... i've been there too often so i forgot name..., "computer plaza"? there's a mini-entrance to the left directly behind 2nd store. there's a bakery on corner, "s&p", i'd guess but i'm not sure.

if u enter..., u'll have "computer plaza" car park to left. to the right it's that bakery shop..., 1, 2, 3 more shops... & there it is "mtek computer".

he's good. indeed. it maybe he'll not be able to fix it... but he'll try. he'll try the ways a decent computer engineering hardware guy will do.

my 0,02bht

[Bananaman]

I've tried the data recovery software route but it was useless - the drive won't even mount so there's a definite physical issue. I've also toyed with the idea of cracking it open myself and having a go but the case is entirely sealed and I'm kinda worried about doing further damage in the process. The annoying thing is that it's still under warranty, so I could in fact get a new one (provided I didn't mention it's suicidal jump from the table), however, they (Seagate) would take the old drive off me and trash it along with all my data, so that's hardly a desirable course of action.

I'm out of town right now but arrive back next week, so on Commons' advice, I reckon I'll give MTEK a try.

If anybody else has other recommendations, please post.

Thx all

[elektrified]

True data recovery (if that is in fact what you need) is extremely expensive and mostly a large corporation that has lost important data would go to this expense. If you lost some Mp3's and DVD's that you downloaded on the Internet, then move on. True data recovery is done by trained specialists at companies who do only this and is tedious and time consuming. I remember once trying to recover some important data that was the automation for the mixing console which we were using for the sound track on a major motion picture. We received bids for $5,000-7,000 USD to recover the data which was probably only 200 MB. That was a number of years ago.

You may not need data recovery, perhaps something was knocked around when the drive fell and possibly it could be repaired.The data may still be intact.

Edited May 27, 2009 by elektrified

[warfie]

I've an external hard drive that decided to leap to its death from the coffee table. I'm now looking at the loss of some 300GB of data that I can seriously do without saying goodbye to. Can anyone recommend someone in CM who might be able to recover the data from the drive? (Or at least make a competent attempt at doing so.)

Cheers

er... me... www dot farang-it-services dot com

[sassienie]

Do a search on hard drive recovery plenty of programmes say they can recover crashed hard drives, someone with a reasonable computer knowledge could do it.

The OP means crushed hard drive not crashed hard drive. Someone else who knows nothing about computers.

Crashed means if the data in a hard drive has become corrupted and is inaccessible, not pertaining to the Ops problem as his hard drive has physical damage.

Visit the computer Plaza (Icon), many whiz kids in there located in the computer repair shops and ask someone to check it out for you.

[cmsally]

One of my computers totally packed out and couldn't even switch on. Chi Chang salvaged all the old data on to a new computer. However the case may have been different in that the problem wasn't specifically with the hard drive.

It could be worth asking them (Chi Chang at Chiang Mai Land).

[getgoin]

3rd floor Panthip plaza right as you get off the escalator near Office Depot it is right in front of you. If it can be done they can do it and cheap.

Edited May 28, 2009 by getgoin

[2Na]

If you are still looking - www.datarecoverythailand.com

Not only that we do not charge you by the data amount, but the evaluation is free.

And for the guy who was asked for 5'000$ for a recovery, I hope you didn't pay so much at the end of the day.

[muggins]

If you are still looking - www.datarecoverythailand.com

Not only that we do not charge you by the data amount, but the evaluation is free.

And for the guy who was asked for 5'000$ for a recovery, I hope you didn't pay so much at the end of the day.

I got mine sorted at Panthip Plaza.

FYI Panthip Plaza on Changklan Rd (night Bazaar) has two escalators. If you enter from Changklan Rd there is one to the right next to Ofice Depot and one to the left, near TT&T and TOT shops.

I used a guy on the top floor of Pantip, next to the escalator to the left. When you reach the top floor there is a shop to the right of the escalator that converts VHS tapes etc to VCD/DVD. His shop is next to that shop. Sorry, I forget the name.

He was a great help and managed to retrieve about 90% of my crahed 160Gb drive. A lifesaver!!

[femi fan]

He was a great help and managed to retrieve about 90% of my crahed 160Gb drive. A lifesaver!!

Can i ask how much you had to pay?

[muggins]

He was a great help and managed to retrieve about 90% of my crahed 160Gb drive. A lifesaver!!

Can i ask how much you had to pay?

800 baht, I think.