| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | Who of you have used data recovery services (for dead hard drives)? Thread poster: Samuel Murray
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| Simple and easy DIY hard drive recovery | Nov 22, 2013 |
In the ancient days of the PC-XT, when a 40 MB (yes, megabytes) hard drive cost USD 400, I had one die on me, and bought another. Then this new one had trouble, and incidentally I discovered a program named SpinRite, then in its version 2. Not only it fixed the ailing new drive, but it brought the dead one back to life in full health.
Many years later, when I had some hard disk trouble, I recalled the incident, and bought SpinRite again, in its current version 6. By running it now a... See more In the ancient days of the PC-XT, when a 40 MB (yes, megabytes) hard drive cost USD 400, I had one die on me, and bought another. Then this new one had trouble, and incidentally I discovered a program named SpinRite, then in its version 2. Not only it fixed the ailing new drive, but it brought the dead one back to life in full health.
Many years later, when I had some hard disk trouble, I recalled the incident, and bought SpinRite again, in its current version 6. By running it now and then, I never had hard disk trouble again.
Worth checking out, especially because it's cheaper than a new hard drive.
Steve Gibson's video there is quite elucidative.
https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm ▲ Collapse
| | | | Samuel Murray 
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TOPIC STARTER | Not really cheaper... | Nov 22, 2013 |
Spinrite is USD 89.00 and you don't get a demo version to see if it works for you or not. What do new hard drives cost in your country?
Note that Spinrite only works if your computer can see the hard drive -- if it can't see the hard drive, then Spinrite can't do anything to the drive. In other words, it works for a very specific type of hard drive crash.
| | | | | hard drive recover | Nov 22, 2013 |
This is the reason, why I through all my old drives. Almost every month I had problems with using my data. While I'm not tired I used software hetman partition recovery. In helped me for 2-3 times, but then I decide to buy new hard drive.
[Edited at 2013-11-22 11:02 GMT]
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