[TriLUG] Data Recovery

[David Both]

There is no way you are going to successfully move the platters from one hard drive to another. Do not even attempt that. Only a highly qualified (very expensive) data recovery company should even attempt that and then only as the very LAST resort. The very first thing to try is installing the HDD in another compatible laptop and see if the drive is recognized. I have had the HDD data channel go out on occasion and that is on the motherboard not the drive itself.

Was your laptop dropped?
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On Tuesday 08 December 2009 10:16:56 Eddie Field wrote:
> Would anyone know of a good company here in town (or even "shade-tree"
> mechanic) with experience with data recovery?  My laptop hard drive crashed
> and my backups are corrupt.  Its not seeing the drive at all even using data
> recovery software.  It sounds like I'm going to have to put the platters in
> a working drive.  Any advise/direction/prayers would be appreciated!
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> ~Eddie Field
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