On Tue, 06 Sep 2016 12:45:27 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 06/09/2016 12:24, rick wrote:
On 05/09/2016 23:08, Clive George wrote:
On 05/09/2016 22:08, rick wrote:
Have a Western Digital 1TB internal 3.5" HDD
Just stopped during use ....
Drive is under warranty so should get it replaced - but they won't
recover the data.
I had a backup .. but a months worth is missing .... (should backup more
than once a month I know)

On windows PC it is no longer seen, a friend connected it to a MAC and
it could be seen & scanned .. but he was unable to recover any files.

Anybody know of anyone that does data recovery as a sideline ?

Professional companies charge hundreds to do this.

In case someone suggests it - I have tried the freezer trick.

Plug it into another computer and give the various data recovery tools a
go - there's plenty of them to try, and they mostly offer a free trial
so you can see you've got data before you have to pay them.


I plugged into into a PC via a SATA to USB interface ... nothing seen so
I can't run any tools. Nothing shows in diskmanager

I used a program called *Disk Digger* that I used to recover all of the
files on a computer for one of my sons. It only cost about a tenner for
the prog.
If you can get a computer to recognise the drive, I would recommend the
program.

After trying all sorts of stuff like that at a previous job, I advised them if they had £300 they could try a recovery company. The company failed to get anything. I forget what had happened, I think the disk had gone faulty in some way and the heads kept crashing. The company had boldly stated they could recover files from a laptop that had fallen into the sea.

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