Its Dead Jim

[Halo Jones]

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

[rhubarb]

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.

[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?

[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

[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

[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...

[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.

[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]

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.

[stek]

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

That won't fix a shagged disk...