Thread: Hard Disk Crash

^ try the icebox, don't listen to the idiot Swiss Wallalai, his mind is made of Cheese

Originally Posted by Butterfly

try the icebox

That's a fucking red for agreeing with me and making me lose any credibility I had.

How long did you leave it in for Marmers and then what happened?

Well, I've played patient and it has paid off.

I left the drive to cool and this morning tried again.

Now last time it froze because I cannot leave alone, I have to do other stuff and tha's probably what froze t.

Today i got to see all the files left on the drive for the first time.

One thing I would have liked I couldn't find, but no matter I identified 33GB of stuff I would like back, including 5GB of the family holiday to Hong Kong last year.

I've left my computer well alone (I'm using my sons at the moment) and the Hong Kong film is now successfully on my external hard drive safe and sound. Anything else is a bonus.

So far 1 hour 15 minutes in, I've regained 10.57GB of 33.46GB

Thanks Thetyim!!!!

^
That program tries real hard to recover the data.
If the surface is damaged it keeps retrying until all hope has gone.
It ran for 20 hours on my 80GB drive.

Sometimes it looks like it has stopped running.
Just be patient and wait.

SpinRite is worth a look, gotten me out of a few jams.

There's some more stuff on there if I really look hard, but I thought I'll just get what I really wanted first. After that I'll really trawl through it in detail and see what else is there, if it fails then I don't care.

I'm already happy enough having got the Hong Kong holiday back.

Just tried that Data Recovery Wizard Pro utility and it can't see the disc.

^
Trying running the other program I mentioned
PTDD Partition Table Doctor and then try Wizard again

^ The DL is not very happening.

Have you got the original file still? Could try chucking over Skype?

Here you go
Link should be good for 7 days, 4.6MB
PtdSetup.exe

Retrieve

Cheers mate

Hmm... that didn't find the disc either.

Oooh, hold on. I bashed it and there's life!

first rule of electronics isn't it.

Bashing ,that is

It's trying to rebuild the partition table, but it's not having much luck at the moment.

Marmite....stick it in the fridge mate it worked for......Marmite

DOH!!!

Originally Posted by Bobcock

Marmite....stick it in the fridge mate it worked for......Marmite

I don't have long enough leads to reach the fridge at work.

I've already recovered the data once, but I want to put my music & photos on another HD.

Anyway, I think I may have sussed it. I'll know more on Monday.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Oooh, hold on. I bashed it and there's life!

Ouch, you don't understand what you just have done

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I've already recovered the data once, but I want to put my music & photos on another HD.

Once ought to be enough, why do you need to recover it more times?

Originally Posted by lom

Once ought to be enough, why do you need to recover it more times?

If I get a new Motherboard, will it have a PATA port as well as the SATA ports? Does it have a different name?

BTW, rebuilding the partition table effectively wiped it, so its going in the bin.

^ under Linux, there is a small program to recover the partition table, very effective, even for superfucked HD,

it can run under RescueCD, which is probably one of the best CD for PC recovery,

I'm a bit stuck with a similar issue/HD problem. Unfortunately I don't have the space avaliable to keep any data I may be able to recover even if I could (haven't tried yet).

So I'm a bit doomed either way.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

If I get a new Motherboard, will it have a PATA port as well as the SATA ports?

There is usually one PATA connector on newish motherboards.
You don't want to use it for a hard disk if your CD/DVD-drive is PATA, ie you don't want to have a CD/DVD-drive and a hard drive on the same flatcable.

So get a SATA CD/DVD-drive, or buy a separate PATA interface add-on card if you need more than one PATA cable.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Does it have a different name?

PATA (Parallell ATA) or IDE. Same same , different name..

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

I'm a bit stuck with a similar issue/HD problem. Unfortunately I don't have the space avaliable to keep any data I may be able to recover even if I could (haven't tried yet).

I just bought a DVD burner and dumped it all onto disks.
4.7GB per disk (more if you get double layer)