Learn to repair hard disks

[Keiv]

Hi:

I'm looking for information about repairing and recovering data from damaged hard disk drives. Anybody knows about a good book or website or somewhere I can learn about this?

Thanks in advance!

 

[MMAshwin]

Hi,

Bad luck on your drive problem.

Here's hoping that your hard drive went belly up in a nice way and that it is not a head crash or bearing/motor problem. If it is then forget it. There are specialist companies that can recover the data but that data better be worth it because it cost a fortune.
See the following for some examples:-

http://data-recovery.actionfront-1.com/corrupted_harddrive.htm

http://www.re-gcomp.com/Testimonials - Main Page.htm

Does you hard drive sound OK ?. If it is still turning but all the files are unreadable then it may be a File Allocation Table (FAT) problem. It may also be a boot sector corruption which will not allow your PC to boot up with that drive.

As far as solutions are concerned, that depends on how bad the problem is. Ontrack Disk Manager software may help if its a FAT problem or one of the many Norton products.

IF its an Master Boot Record (MBR), I remember from my DOS days that FDISK /MBR would restore the backup MBR to your harddrive.

Any more info on your HDD, so we can crack this problem.

Regards