walkjivefly wrote:Just Robbed wrote:Was told the hard drive in my 8 year old HP desktop was bust today.
Got the hard drive back.
Any way data can be recovered here in PP?
Years of documents, music and photos. Backed up to an external drive last time about 4 year's ago.
Maybe, depends how broken the drive is. There's another thread about data recovery around here somewhere. If you can hear the drive clicking but your PC says or acts like it is dead you might bring it back to life with a new controller PCB.
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if its clicking the PCB isn't going to recover it,
in order to recover it you'll need to do a platter transfer, in fact its generally better to do a platter transfer anyway, rather than just the PCB,
if you have an identical drive its relatively easy (if you know what you are doing, and better yet have access to a neg pressure clean room)
also clicking can be due to warping - this can be temporarily fixed by freezing the drive in a vacum sealed bag, then immediately DD'ing the drive to another storage medium.
However, you'd be better off contacting a data forensics specialist in Bangkok,
I don't know any consumer level data recovery folk in Asia - all the people I deal with are enterprise, so you are looking at $500 - $1000 USD for assessment and a minimum charge of $3500USD for recovery.