200
ways to revive a hard drive
This
is a situation that every tech support person has faced or will face at least
once: a failed
hard drive.
In
this particular case, a user was getting errors like "disk 0 error"
and "invalid drive specification."
Here
were the other facts in the case:
•
The data wasn't backed up.
•
The problem came out of nowhere.
•
The user had accessed Setup and tried to manually enter the settings for the
drive type when
"Auto"
didn't work.
•
There was no startup disk made by this machine.
Reviving
a drive like that one—even if only long enough to copy its data before you
throw the
drive
in the garbage—is a tough challenge.
When this document was first compiled back in 2001 data
recovery was (and still is
for many) a very expensive option.
While
the Freeze it, Hit it, and Drop it options are still experimented with by some,
the current
size
and sensitivity of the newer larger hard drives makes these options extremely risky
and definitely NOT recommended for hard drives with a
capacity that’s greater than 1
gig. And
even then some of the operation suggested here should be approached with
caution.
Getting
it wrong by trying to save some money will only end up costing you more if you
then
decide
to pass on your hard drive to a data recovery company...
If your hard drive does work and you are attempting to
recover a FAT or NTFS file
system,
then this FREE step
by step guide could
help you get back your lost files.
