Many have advocated freezing the drive in a sealed plastic bag overnight,
then *immediately* powering up and copying.

jak

"Stellijer" wrote in message
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Ian Stirling wrote in message
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Stellijer wrote:
Anyone know of any great web sites or discussions boards for reviving
hard
drives which have failed fir data retreival?

I have two hard drives which failed within 2 weeks of each other
before
backups
could be made of certain data. I'd like to research the best ways to
recover
the data.

The best way is to pay a professional recovery company to do it.

Oh, yeah - and they say "$500-$1000 is our minimum fee".

While that may be the BEST way, it's not a realistic one. The only way a
recovery company would be worth it is if you are a company with project
data on
the drive (and any such company would be foolish to not run backups
regularly on
mission critical data).

I'm hoping there's a way to get the drive working just long enough to
retrieve
the data.