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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?

I need a software for my hard drive cause well it had a technical problem and the only way to access it was to format it and losted all my videos and stuff T^T i have the programs to get it back but none of them picked up any rvmb, is there any out there? it has to be free though

Best reply by Glenn R:

Recently I had a hard drive go out on me. Tried literally 10 programs before using Active Undelete. By far the best program. Will search for lost partitions from ages ago, and makes it easy to search through them for particular files or file types.

It really depends on how the sectors were written over. It will tell you the status of each file – how ‘recoverable’ they will be.

Make sure to recover to a different hard drive. You increase your risk of losing this data as you write more data over it. In hindsight, the best thing would have been to pop it into another computer and run the software before formatting it – but I understand it can be difficult to do that in some cases.

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Any Good Hard Drive Recovery softwares for RMVB videos?

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I have a XP, and if I did a full system recovery will I be able to erase all the stuff I put on my hard drive and including the hidden files?

Best reply by wiztek:

A short answer>>>>YES

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if you do a full system recovery, does your hard drive get erased and set back to factory settings.?