Re: Exterior Hard Drive Crash

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"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message news:urWoY3MEJHA.1460@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A hd drive can be DOA or fail at anytime, theres nothing you can do to prevent failure, other than not dropping one.
There are Companies that will recover data, if it is recoverable - no recovery no fee.

You'd want to establish this before contracting with the company. You may wind up with a charge even if recovery is not successful.

Most companies will provide estimates of both cost and recovery possibilities, but as producing the estimate can require opening the drive and mounting the platters on their hardware, estimates aren't always free.

You are correct, relying on one single backup is not prudent.

HTH
-pk


About the only thing a user can do is to keep multiple backups on differeing media & in differing locations

"bobbymike" <ejnbln@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:u89W$WKEJHA.3476@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My Sony Windows XP Media Edition crashed a few months ago .. luckily I had all my important documents, photos, etc backed up on a WD exterior hard drive. In August I got a new Dell Inspiron 530 Desktop running Windows XP Professional. Unfortunately I did not copy all the important info from the exterior hard drive to this new Dell. Last week, I went to open up the exterior hard drive and this message came on screen - 'The Disk in Drive F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now'- Long story short, took the exterior hard drive to my trusted computer guy who ran it all weekend trying to recover the data . He had no luck - could not recover anything. Short of spending $$$$$$$ does anyone have any ideas about what I could possibly do next - or is this a dead issue? And would anyone have a possible reason as to why this exterior hard drive crashed in the first place. Thanks for any and all input.




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