Re: Data Recovery On A Unbootable Disk

tkbirdie wrote:
I have a unbootable laptop hard drive. Dell sent me a replacement.
There is data on the unbootable hard drive I need to access. Is there
any way I can do it myself? Dell told me about
www.ontrack.co.uk/dell. I am a student and I don't really want to pay
for anything that I can do myself. Is there any way I can connect
the new drive and the old drive to the laptop at the same time and
recover my data? If I use the Recovery Console on the installation
CD, will that work? I have coursework which I need to access. I
have a USB port in the back of my laptop. Is there any software I
can download? I live in the UK.
I have recently found out that the hard drive does not spin. Is there
anything I can do? I have to return the hard drive to Dell on Monday.

Ouch! I didn't see the part about it not spinning up. If that's the case,
and if it's getting power (have you checked to see that it's firmly seated
in the laptop?) then you're pretty much dead in the water unless you want to
pay a specialist to recover it, and that's pretty expensive.

Actually, since it's probably trashed anyway, you could try seeing what you
could do to get at the motor mechanism and move it manually. Sometimes a
different position is enough to get them to spin up. Try the spinning of
the case as another mentioned; it works on some occasions if the bearings
are at all allowing it to turn.

Any chance you have a friend with a desktop you could plug it into? Then
you could move/rotate it around and if it gets spun up you could copy the
data off it for as long as it'll spin.
If you disassemble the drive to get at the motor mechanics, get the data
off if it'll spin up, but the hermetic seal is broken, so do not trust the
disc for any kind of use other than as maybe a paperweight.

HTH
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