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My Hard Drive Dead - looking for low cost data recovery alternative to a clean room service.
I know that my WD Caviar (WD800) 80G drive has died to a hardware
problem. The bios cannot detect it. It makes a clicking noise. It has a Fat32 format. The data I need to recover is in the primary partition which is 50G. Based on my research, it probably will have to be opened up in a clean room and either the drive heads need to be repaired or the platters put into a replacement drive. Unfortunately, I am not in the position where I want to spend a lot of money on this recovery effort. I value my data, but I question whether it is worth that much. So far the costs have been estimated to be around $1200. I am looking for an alternative to getting this data recovered. I can handle doing the software data recovery myself. It is just the hardware that I need to have fixed with the data intact left as is. I can do the rest. Please respond if you have any experience with this, much appreciated. |
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* First of all, i would suggest you use HDD regenerator 1.41
it will try to fix up bad sector, because u said your HDD has clicking sound that may be cause by bad sectors. * After that, use a software that can assign your bad sectors into one partition then invisible/ hide it. Hope it's helpful to you GD luck |
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* use HDD regenerator fix the bad sector
* then use partition magic or others to assign the remainning bad sectors(coz HDD regenerator cant perfectly repair all bad sectors) into 1 partition ,then hide it. hope it helpful |
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Porque no usas el hdd regeneration con este vas a crear un disco de
arranque con el cual podras reparar tu disco y asi recuperar tu informacion. |
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