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Hard Drive Broken - Chances of Retrieving Info On It?

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  • 08-05-2014 11:33am
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    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭


    Have a hard drive that fell from the edge of a couch on to carpet.

    Need to retrieve the info off it.

    When I plug it in it whirs and clicks, it doesn't sound great.

    Any help appreciated on what to do.

    The make is a Gericom, cant see a model number.


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    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,748 ✭✭✭degsie


    Is it in an enclosure? Might be worth while to open it and attach the hdd directly to a pc. The 'click of death' is never good though. Some ppl suggest putting the drive in a freezer (google it!) but ymmv. A data retrieval company may be able to help, but it will cost.


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    riclad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    IF its sata you can buy a caddy usb for 14 euro,
    plug it into pc ,see does it work,
    OR open pc,use sata cables, from dvd drive ,power ,data to connect it up.
    FIRST switch off pc, take pc power cable out from the esb socket .
    Drives over 300gig 3.5inch will likely need a caddy with its own power supply.

    Open the case ,see if the data or power cable going to the drive is loose.

    http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Storage/cat/Hard-Drive-Accessories/subcat/Caddies-&-Enclosures?limit=30&page=1

    The drive could be 2.5 or 3.5 inch in size.
    Just turning off pc is not enough, as power goe,s thru it all the time ,
    when power cable is plugged into an esb socket.
    re installing drive in a pc, be careful.


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    ressem
    Registered Users Posts: 2,426 ✭✭✭ressem


    Disagree about plugging into a PC. Windows is likely to mess it up more as it struggles to read sectors and autorepair before failing.

    On damaged hard drives, where the contents are not worth hundreds of euro to you, you could read up on using ddrescue from a bootable cd like "ubuntu rescue remix". There's a few old posts here on boards going into more detail.

    It can copy a hard drive to a secondary hard drive or image file, skipping and logging the unreadable sectors and continue on with the remainder. Then you'd at least have a best effort copy of readable sectors upon which you can run filesystem repair tools.

    Or UFS Explorer standard recovery is pretty decent at extracting as much recoverable file data as it can. http://www.ufsexplorer.com/order.php?prod=sr


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