Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:12 am Post subject: Help me….my hard disk is damaged!!!
Hi everyone , I am employed as a manager in a firm. I have a problem that I had like to talk about. My system was working fine the other day, but while copying a file by nero….the system hanged and I had to restart it. But I got a disk boot failure error. Then , I tried to run a windows xp installation CD, but that is also showing some error message during installation and the installation fails.I did check the bios settings and the disk fails to show…and had it checked on another system also…but bios cannot detect the hard disk.I think the disk is damaged or something like that.The disk has important data from my company’s point of view…..that I need to recover.
Please let me know if there are any ways to get my data back from this disk!!!!
if you have access to another computer with a cd burner you can download and burn a copy of knoppix linux and boot to that cd with the drive installed. that will at least help you see if your files are readable. although if the bios doesn't recognized the drive, it may need to be sent to a professional data recovery shop.
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 10:01 pm Post subject:
Data recovery is very likely - we do them off drives like you describe all the time. Its not cheap though.
Beware those data recovery places that charge $200 - $500 for recoveries - they are scams. Its going to cost between $1200 - $2700 depending on the extent of the damage
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