Reply to: Its Dead Jim

[FatLazyContractor]

NLUK - Im sure you could start an argument in an empty room....

Of course, why the feck is the room empty?

[FatLazyContractor]

Not everyone is IT literate. I don't know what's hard to understand about that? Just because you might be doesn't mean they are. By that thinking I have a professional attitude towards my client.. So everyone else obviously does... You see the flaw.

What were you smoking/drinking for lunch?

[psychocandy]

Not everyone is IT literate. I don't know what's hard to understand about that? Just because you might be doesn't mean they are. By that thinking I have a professional attitude towards my client.. So everyone else obviously does... You see the flaw.

NLUK - Im sure you could start an argument in an empty room....

[northernladuk]

Not cheap. Never understand why people rely on just one disk. Get google cloud or something - you can get tonks of storage for about £2 a month.

Remember when my mrs was in college. I used to force her to back up her college stuff. Of course not everyone did this. One of her classmates lost her disertation the day before (Stored on usb drive), no backup, shes was in college bawling her eyes out.

Not everyone is IT literate. I don't know what's hard to understand about that? Just because you might be doesn't mean they are. By that thinking I have a professional attitude towards my client.. So everyone else obviously does... You see the flaw.

[psychocandy]

That won't fix a shagged disk...

Obviously. But if the OP doesnt want to stick it back int he case.

[Platypus]

Just how knackered is it?

(1) PC won't boot - often the HDD is corrupt, has some bad sectors and lots of stuff can be recovered (I have tools to do this)

(2) Hard drive has been removed then connected to another PC as an external drive, and nothing - oh dear, professional service required

The "freezer" trick usually only works if the drive is/was doing the "click of death" which your friend might not have noticed.

If (1) then go here: Unformat and File Recovery Software for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Windows7/Windows8 it really works.

EDIT: I've saved lots of people's photos using this software but still have never turned up any "candid" shots.

[FatLazyContractor]

Advice please; a friend has a hard drive that has failed, and as is the norm in these situations: he has realised that it holds all his photos & he has no back up.

Can anyone recommend a data recovery service, as in a send it off & pay for it as he has minor IT skills?

Thanks

I would have helped you if it was your own!

[stek]

Buy a USB caddy and stick disk in there. £20-30.

That won't fix a shagged disk...

[psychocandy]

Nope the question was asked on behalf of a work colleague




When I said minimal IT skills – I mean that someone else (I think it was PC world) had removed the HD & suggested he try elsewhere, getting him to put it back is not going to happen




Thanks for that will suggest the link

Buy a USB caddy and stick disk in there. £20-30.

[psychocandy]

Not cheap. Never understand why people rely on just one disk. Get google cloud or something - you can get tonks of storage for about £2 a month.

Remember when my mrs was in college. I used to force her to back up her college stuff. Of course not everyone did this. One of her classmates lost her disertation the day before (Stored on usb drive), no backup, shes was in college bawling her eyes out.

[psychocandy]

First things first.
Assuming its died from a hardware point of view (dry joint or something along those lines), tell him to wrap it in many bags, seal it up and place into the freezer for 24 hours. Then try putting it back into his pc and see if there's any life in the thing.

never heard that one before.

[stek]

Friend of mine paid £2k I shiit you not to recover his bird's thesis from knackered disk she'd never backed up.

One of those professional recovery peoples...

Circa 2008...

[Halo Jones]

BGG? Were they the photos taken with the hidden camera?

Nope the question was asked on behalf of a work colleague

First things first. Assuming its died from a hardware point of view (dry joint or something along those lines), tell him to wrap it in many bags, seal it up and place into the freezer for 24 hours. Then try putting it back into his pc and see if there's any life in the thing.

When I said minimal IT skills – I mean that someone else (I think it was PC world) had removed the HD & suggested he try elsewhere, getting him to put it back is not going to happen

https://www.fields-data-recovery.co....FerjwgodgiEAIA

Expect to pay handsomely.

Truly HTH

Thanks for that will suggest the link

[suityou01]

Advice please; a friend has a hard drive that has failed, and as is the norm in these situations: he has realised that it holds all his photos & he has no back up.

Can anyone recommend a data recovery service, as in a send it off & pay for it as he has minor IT skills?

Thanks

Buy and download this :

https://www.grc.com/cs/prepurch.htm

Burn it to on of these



Insert into optical drive and boot.

Select option 2 and let it do it's stuff. Can take hours.

Reboot from HDD.

Plug in one of these :



Copy tulip to external drive.

Shut down. Remove HDD and place delicately in one of these :



Insert new HDD and install OS.

Copy tulip back.

Of course all of the above is not advised if the drive is making a clicking sound like a deathwatch beetle.

Then you really will need a data recovery expert.

Like this one :

https://www.fields-data-recovery.co....FerjwgodgiEAIA

Expect to pay handsomely.

Truly HTH

[BrilloPad]

Advice please; a friend has a hard drive that has failed, and as is the norm in these situations: he has realised that it holds all his photos & he has no back up.

Can anyone recommend a data recovery service, as in a send it off & pay for it as he has minor IT skills?

Thanks

BGG?

Were they the photos taken with the hidden camera?