Advanced Hard Drive Data Recovery Part 1

THROW A DOG A BONE!

Dude, I had one of those Lacie Big Disks crash on me and while I've had success in the part with Data Rescue II in the past, this one is MUCH HARDER!

The enclosure has 2 drives. As I understand, they're "RAID STRIPED". I pulled both drives and popped them into enclosures. one fired up, even though the computer wouldn't read it. My brain is going a million miles an hours and I don't know what to do.

If one drive's gone then they're both gone right?

and where does one take these classes?

I'm in New Orleans

at - MyHardDriveDied

I teach a class as well that does go step by step. It is really hard to cram days of work in to one hour like at these conference.

These are great videos, but there's still no single definitive answer of the exact step by step procedure.

hi superfly ,do you have a website with more details ,or a book ? thank you a lot because my english knowldege cant follow you when you speak hehe, thanks man

Nice tutorial. 10x.

btw, i got a HDD Samsung 160 sata II that won`t start. It just won`t. I shuted down the PC and after 1 minute i powered it on. But the hdd haven`t started. Don`t know why. Any advice, anyone ?

I had a stuck file once, I tried to delete it using all means, nothing worked. I did notice it did not have an ending to the file name like example: .exe .dsc etc. and it was showing up as 0kbs. I decided to do a fresh reinstall of windows XP home.

highly interesting and relevant

as a computer scientist, I am always amazed by the complexity and engineering lying in the hardware layers

Great! I think the presentation is great. Because of the in depth knowledge to be learned and because data recovery companies are pissed off as they think they are loosing money. That's really bollocks. I wouldn't spend hundreds of dollars anyway to recover my personal data.

I've done that but i wasn't able to access the folders on that was on the desktop of when the old hdd was in tact..

PART 2 Make sure the functioning HDD is on Master jumper setting, and take the non-working HDD and set that jumper to slave. WHen you boot windows, you have to choose the functioning Operating System on the good HDD, just after BIOS loads. YOu should be able to explore the bad HDD under My Computer, and copy the raw data and files from the bad HDD to the desktop of the good HDD...I've done this several times...

I've had problems where I've had HDD that weren't able to boot Windows, but there is still data on the drive that I needed. What I usually do is what I call a "dummy boot". You get another different computer that has a functioning HDD that can boot windows. PART 1

It usually is recoverable from the desc you gave.

I have a hdd from my old desktop pc. I couldn't log on anymore cause it was saying i had a damaged or corrupted file in the windows32 folder.. I couldn't fix it, the pc doesn't boot up properly due to damaged IDE connector on the motherboard. I got a new desktop pc, I wanna recover the files from the hdd but can't seem to because the files were in folders on the desktop and not in other locations of the hard drive. Is there hope for me to recover those folders on the desktop?