Hard Drive Dead HELP!!

[appsci]

I have a Dell Windows 2000 Machine. I'm pretty sure the hard drive is corrupt. When the machine boots up it shows the dell opening screen then automatically shuts down. I ran a quick diagnositic test on the hard drive and it came back saying the hard drive failed. My question is, Is there any possible way I can recover the data on the machine. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[wolluf]

Almost certainly from a (expensive) data recovery agency.
Otherwise, depends how dead it is - can you mount it as slave in another machine? (basically, if machine/o/s doesn't recognise it, you need data recovery agency. If it does, see what you can see, and use a data recovery app if necessary - Google to find many commerical ones - free one here -

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

 

[jurgen36]

If the drive still spinns try Runtime Software Data Back. This works on all systems. Greetings Jurgen

 

[BadSeagate]

Try OnTrack software (

http://www.ontrack.com).

They have a Data Recovery program (free download) where I used on a badly corrupted HD and recovered a lot of what I needed.

 

[mikeg2004]

you can still recover your software with out going through one of those expensive agencys. use a program called bad copy.

http://www.badcopy.com

you also may need to setup your harddrive thats not working as the slave. ( because it wont boot ). good luck

 

[appsci]

Thanks Guys!

 

[noobtechie]

What you can try and do is to get that hd and set it up as a slave on a working computer and hope that it reads it.

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Hope this helps

 

[appsci]

Thanks Everyone! I set up the bad hard drive as the slave and everything is all set.