Had a hard drive go west last week, now the bios can not see the drive on my new system. Anyone know what options i have to try recover the data that is on there ?

Use google mate, there are companies out there who u can send the drive to with another drive and they will recover your data and make an exact copy of it on the new drive. Quite costly though, but i guess it depends on how important your data recovery is. Can't think of any companies off the top of my head, but there are quite a few UK based ones mate.

Had a hard drive go west last week, now the bios can not see the drive on my new system. Anyone know what options i have to try recover the data that is on there ?

 

 

Have you done the obvious stuff like set it from master to slave etc ?

If all else fails mate send it up to me.

Depending on whats gone I can normally recover most drives.

I can do board exchanges on em as they've been known to fail.

 

Ill do it for ya for free anyway mate and wont damage owt - so if you like, if I cant recover it Ill send it ya back and you can send it away for platters to be stripped out but this really needs to be done in a sealed room.

If the BIOS cannot see it,,,then it is likely toast unless you can get a prof company to do it. You can put the platter into another disk but that is very fiddly risky work...and doesnt always work.

 

I assume you have a backup of your data?? Most people don't...

Update,

 

Just messed around with a jumpers and IDE cables, i can now get the BIOS to see the drive and it is spinning, just wont boot into XP so hopefully isnt the disaster i first thought, any more to add with that new info ?

Update,

 

Just messed around with a jumpers and IDE cables, i can now get the BIOS to see the drive and it is spinning, just wont boot into XP so hopefully isnt the disaster i first thought, any more to add with that new info ?

a good site here chris- http://ask-leo.com :)

a good site here chris- http://ask-leo.com :)

 

Cheers Bri i'll give it a go :)

If your BIOS is seeing it, XP shouldn't have any probs, at least I've never seen this happen. Stick it in as a second drive with as operating system on a good drive. Then see what you can see on it. If you need file recovery software I can send you some by email/yousendit.com. Dave

Done that dave but it boots straight into safe mode with the options for how you want to boot into XP ie last working mode/safe mode etc etc.

 

 

It is fooked but still recoverable i recon.

Does it boot into last good config/ safe mode ok then? I take it you havn't got another drive you can use as the operating system drive so you can look at the fooked one as a second drive?

Does it boot into safe mode ok then?

 

Nope, tries to but just reboots back onto the option boot screen :smash: :(

edited last post.

I'll have a look in the light tomorrow dave cheerZ ;)

Chris - try the recovery option

 

here http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm saves me typing :)

before you press C the second time thou you can press R to try an autorecovery to save faffing around

If it boots into safe mode ok, then it is likely a driver problem as safe mode only uses minimal drivers.

 

Any errors from event logs, device manager?