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Hard Drive Recovery
Well, it happened. 2 of my hard drives just died, including the one with all my pictures on it. Anyone know of a place I can try to get these recovered for not a lot of money? Took it to Geek Squad and he confirmed they were both dead and burning hot (I even burnt myself)
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Depending on if the drive is still able to be recognized and run, you might be able to run some recovery software on it. If it's physically broken, which sounds like it is, since you mentioned it got hot enough to burn yourself, you may be SOL unless you find a lab that's able to open up the drive and read from the platters directly.
Also, in addition to backing up, I recommend monitoring the S.M.A.R.T. data of your drives with a tool like SpeedFan. The S.M.A.R.T. data was able to tell me that I had a remapped sector on my Western Digital Black HD even before there were any symptoms at all. Thankfully it was within warranty, and I got a new one from WD before I lost any data. I would DEFINITELY recommend checking S.M.A.R.T. especially if your HD is over four or five years old and runs a lot.
Last edited by heeshung; 2014-01-04 at 01:15 AM.
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use stellar phoenix it's the best
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