Hard Drive Recovery

[markyuk]

Hi I have a problem my hard drive crashed has bad sectors I took it to laptop repair shop and they deleted files and put on external drive back to laptop few times, I dont know what to do theyve tried to recover but only found 50 gig when laptop had c: f: partition hard drives with 250 / 300 gig is there anyway to recover?

[labtech]

...and they deleted files and put on external drive back to laptop few times..."

This is somewhat confusing. Can you clarify?

[markyuk]

...and they deleted files and put on external drive back to laptop few times..."

This is somewhat confusing. Can you clarify?

Yes what they did was copy all files from my old acer 8930g Laptop hdd to temp hdd then back to mine, pc crashed and they did it again, and this time only one partition drive got put on my hdd but not C drive files anyway to recover?

They tried 4 recovery softwares but no luck...

What is the difference from software recover programmes and data recovery devices? Would the software have overwritten my hard disk drive?

[labtech]

Someone professional would need to evaluate this to see what exactly can be done. Do not think much can be done.

Last edited by labtech on November 26th, 2011, 14:40, edited 1 time in total.

[markyuk]

Can you define why it would not be likely technically? What would be the problems that could happen if tried by recovery company?

[labtech]

Can you define why it would not be likely technically? What would be the problems that could happen if tried by recovery company?

I revised my post, but I meant technically as in theoretically. Like it is possible to recover something, but it will be corrupted, with no directory structure, hence unusable.

The major problem here is that it is not quite clear what conditions the drive is in in relevance to what these guys did.

[markyuk]

Also can a recovery specialist see what has happened meaning can it find information about what info was moved or deleted or what the repair guy had done to hard drive, like a info list what happened previouly?

[Vulcan]

Since it has become clear that you can't give exact details about what the "repair shop" did, all of your latest questions would need to be answered by someone who has the disk in his hands, or perhaps those questions should now be ignored.

IMHO the best use of your time & money is for a professional to look at what is recoverable from the disk now. Depending on what is found on the disk, it might be possible to guess at some of what the repair shop did, but why bother? What is important is what can be recovered from the disk.

It seems possible that the "repair shop" has caused the loss of some / most of your data. Unfortunately this is not the first time that a "repair shop" has been mentioned on this forum, as trying to do data recovery, and making the situation worse

[markyuk]

When he gave me the external case with hard drive I could open F: partition but C: wouldnt open so he tried 4 recovery software and only found 50 gig.

Would it be that the hard drive was in external case that it counldnt open C:?

[Vulcan]

When he gave me the external case with hard drive I could open F: partition but C: wouldnt open so he tried 4 recovery software and only found 50 gig.

This is not enough info to be confident of giving you an accurate explanation. There might be a problem (physical or logical) with the drive partition containing C: - but as I said before, any further questions would need to be answered by someone who has the disk in his hands. Or do you want random answers, even if they are wrong?