Data recovery from knackered HD

[Thewholehogg]

Data recovery from knackered HD....indeed.:<

Does anybody know anything about recoving data from a corrupt (clicking) external HD.

Nothing major lost...but some stuff I would like to recover.

 

[leepaulvickersdesign]

Is it physically damaged... or corrupt?

 

[Thewholehogg]

Hard to say. It powers up and turns...like i mentioned it made the dead man's click noise and now doesnt mount....

 

[ralphsaunders]

Well if you can pull it out of the casing and stick it in a PC and get the OS to see it then I would recommend spinrite - GRC|SpinRite 5.0 to 6.0 (awful website, I know). Spinrite will take forever but it should make the drive stable enough to get the data off.

 

[Thewholehogg]

I'll take it to the shop....

 

[Thewholehogg]

There's a man there in a brown cardigan...he's a PC chap.

 

[glenwheeler]

Hi Mate,

I've always recovered data using a Nix OS to grab the HDD and info from it. If the guy in the shop can't fix it let me know and I can take a look.

 

[Thewholehogg]

Cheers Glen...does it matter that the hard drive was used with a Mac?

 

[glenwheeler]

should'nt do mandriva should be able to get into the file structure and scout about

 

[Thewholehogg]

Can you have a go Glen....I can drop it around at your address.

 

[glenwheeler]

I certainly can mate, what connection is it? SATA?

 

[Thewholehogg]

Iomega external mini usb.

 

[Tom Sound]

Ooooh forum meet up, don't forget to take some pictures!

And you'll get to meet Hammy!

:up:

 

[Thewholehogg]

ssssh I'm gonna nick his motor...it's a set up.

Don't tell Glen.