My toshiba laptops fan burnt out which resulted the death of my hard drive. I need a company that will not hurt my pockets too bad. I know that I need a level 2 or level 3 recovery, and as always thanks in advance
Best reply by Ignorance SUCKS:
RECUVA.com—its free–and works great
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I need a hard drive recovery company?
I have a raid 0 computer. I defraged my computer with a bad sector on one of the hard drives. I now need to recover some data.
Can i recover data by plugging one HD at a time into a 2.5″ HD enclosure and having another computer take the data off it?
Best reply by blamay22000:
Sure providing the drive is still functional and the data you are looking for isnt corrupt
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will this work for Hard Drive recovery?
my old computer was pretty old (2001/2 I think) it had a recovery partition which I used to reformat the hard-drive of my old computer to re-install windows XP many times, If I were to get a new computer without an OS, would it be possible to use that recovery partition on a completely new setup (old one went out the window >.< )
Best reply by Arie:
No, that is not possible. First of all the recovery partition was intended specifically for your old computer, meaning that it contained custom drivers for example. Technically it is therefore not possible, but legally it is not allowed either as it is an OEM license, which is only allowed to be used on the computer it was sold with.
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Can you use an old hard-drive recovery partition to install an OS onto a new computer setup?
I has stuff on a hard drive that failed, i was wondering and hoping there are data clinics or any company that i can go to an recover the data in the state of Minnesota
Best reply by T:
I am quite sure that there are and I would Google HD recovery followed by your zip code to find such shops.
If your HD has physically failed, usually is making any clicking or jet engine type noise, It is usually not worth the cost to recover.
As a PC repair tech for over 13 years, I can tell you that the minimum cost of this type of HD recovery starts out at around $300.00 and can literally run into the $1000′s. This is because you have to buy an exact same type of HD and, in a clean room environment, the platters have to be removed from your HD and put into a new HD. If a platter is broken the cost will eaisly double or triple.
However, if your HD just no longer responds you can sometimes hook that drive up as a slave and copy the data from it. This costs considerably less but can still run into hundreds of dollars to have done.
This is why it is always a good idea to back up your data to an external source like a DVD or an external HD.
Good luck with your search and data recovery.
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Where are some hard drive recovery shops in MN?
After having to force reboot my Asus laptop, I was unable to boot into Windows. I had it looked at by a professional and he believes that the hard-drive is finally dead. So I was wondering how expensive it is to get a professional to fix the physical hard-drive so I can recover all my files.
Best reply by Anonymous:
I believe anywhere from $300 – $1,000 depending on the company.
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How expensive are hard-drive recovery services?
My friend was quoted $1800 by Microcenter for an external hard drive recovery.
Best reply by mrresearchman:
Hard drive recovery ain’t cheap no matter where you go.
If I were your friend I’d be trying every hint, tip, etc I could find on here first,,,,
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What is the going price on hard drive recovery?
I created Recovery discs to backup my hard drive. I was prompted to create a set of five discs but some error prevented me from creating the last one. Hope that won’t show to be an issue later.
Now, my system crashed and I need to get all my data back, but am unsure of the steps to take to do so from the recovery discs. Can you tell me how and anything things else I might need to know? Thanks so much!
Best reply by choliscott:
Did you put the first recovery disc in the cd/dvd drive & reboot the computer & see if it allows you to boot off the cd? If nothing happens then you will need to go into the bios & see if its set to boot the cd first then the hard drive.
If this is set correctly, then you probably didn’t make the boot cd. Since you had an error, its possible you will still have issues.
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How to restore hard drive from created backup Recovery Discs?
My hard drive crashed in my HP and i have another one that is blank. If i stick the blank hard drive into my computer and press F10 to do the system recovery will it put the windows files and things on the hard drive? Will it interfere with the other hard drive if it Magically starts working and i use it again?
Best reply by kaustav_whoami:
The OS comes with HP recovery CD/DVD is an OEM edition of that OS. Of course you can install it on another hard disk but it will ask for a valid serial number; since the SID(security identifier) changes with the change of disk. If you can get a fresh serial number, you’re in.
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Can i use the HP recovery on a new hard drive?
My external hard drive died out of nowhere. I plugged it as usual and it didn’t detect. So I disassembled the external and installed that hard drive into the desktop. When I boot up into windows it detects the hard drive but it shows as an unallocated drive.
Is there any software (free or for purchase) that will allow me to see my data?
Best reply by † Oh yeah:
TestDisk is pretty good. It is a free data recovery software that can run on multiple operating systems, which includes Windows, Mac, and Linux.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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What’s a good hard drive recovery software?
I recently fried my hard drive. Im thinking about using a data recovery center. The drive i need recovered has alot of unpublished and un-copyrighted material that i have created such as screenplays and manuscripts. Im worried that the company having access to these will steal them during the recovery and with no backup on my part i would have no way to dispute that they were mine in court if i needed to sue cause someone uses it. Are my worries valid ?, any way to deal with this situation.
Best reply by inclusive_disjunction:
I honestly doubt a group of computer nerds in clean suits are going to care about some scripts on a hard drive, unless they are particularly erotic. They make a lot of money and therefore it probably isn’t worth going to jail to steal something off the drive.
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Are hard drive recovery centers safe ?
