Laptop Hard Drive

[NickCat11]

Hello All,

Ok, I am fixing my buddies laptop and I figured out his hard drive was shot through the use of a couple diagnostic programs. I replaced the hard drive and now all is fine. The problem I am having is that I cannot get the data from the defective hard drive. I bought a converter and hooked the drive up to my pc but it just makes everything freeze up on my own pc. Out of curiosity I took out the new drive from the laptop and hooked it up to my pc and it read it like an external drive which is supposed to happen. Is there anything else I can try to extract his data (pictures mostly) off the drive? Thanks in advance.

Nick

 

[wolluf]

Sounds like that drive is dead - so would have to be expensive data recovery company if you really wanted the data. Might be worth trying to connect it to other machine(s) - but suspect you'll get same thing.

 

[wahnula]

For pictures, try Davory (if the drive even works) or GetDataBack. There is a data recovery service that will examine the drive for $99 and let you know if any data is recoverable, if you are interested post back and I will look up the URL.

Tony