Re: Recover data by putting harddrive into USB case.
- From: Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:20:17 -0700
David Smithz wrote:
Hi there,
I have taken a hard drive out of a faulty laptop for someone so that we
can retrieve the data from it. I placed the hard drive into a USB hard
drive enclosure and we can read the data fine from the hard drive.
However, I wanted to transfer the data from the hard drive onto my local
hard drive so I have an exact copy before it goes off to the laptop repair
place.
When we try and move the files across in Windows Explorer, it always gets
so far, and then reports that a certain file cannot be transferred because
it is in use or something (don't have the exact message), but then the
entire process stops and I am unsure which files have been so far copied
over.
Very irritating.
Is there no way to skip the files that wont copy, or is there another way
in Windows I can approach this so that I can get as many of the files as
possible?
There are a few possibilities:
1. The laptop drive is physically damaged. If this is the case and the data
is important, stop working with the drive immediately and send it to a
professional data recovery company. This is expensive, but only the drive
owner can decide the value of their data. General prices run from $500USD
on up. Drive Savers recovered all the data on a failed laptop drive for one
of my clients and it cost $2,700. He thought it was worth the money; only
your client knows what his data is worth.
Drive Savers - http://www.drivesavers.com
Seagate Data Recovery Services - https://www.seagatedatarecovery.com/
2. The laptop drive is not physically damaged, but there is damage to the
operating system and/or file system and the Windows operating system on
your host computer is choking on it. In this case, boot the host computer
with a rescue cd like a Bart's PE or Knoppix and see if you can transfer
the data that way. If the same thing happens, then the laptop hard drive is
probably physically damaged.
3. If you want to run a hard drive diagnostic on the laptop hard drive to be
sure, take it out of the usb enclosure and slave it directly to a desktop
computer. You will need a laptop-to-IDE adapter. Then boot the host
computer with the diagnostic media and do a thorough test on the laptop
drive.
Malke
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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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www.elephantboycomputers.com
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