What's the problem of my HDD?

[cornmouse]

Ok.. cos' if I were to send to another shop to repair, it would only cost $95 (including free pick up service). The data recovery center (walking distance from my house) that charged me $160, made me wait 2 weeks to get back my data which is really long!

[drc]

I'm confused. Have you had your data recovered yet or not?

[cornmouse]

It is in the process copying data from the data recovery machine But the guy said I could only collect the hard disk back next week. Does it usually take this long for a 640GB hard disk?

[Alexii]

Oh , so u didnt get ur data back yet ? If it is in the process right now - then it should not be very long. Most likely they dont have to many imagers and u have to wait for one to get free. Also hope that their diagnostocs is correct and they wont encounter any problems when imaging ur drive. It happens u know.

[hddguy]

It is in the process copying data from the data recovery machine

And whats the chances there will be 'errors', or heads fail requiring replacement, and incurring extra costs...

[cornmouse]

i'm a bit confused. bad sectors problems require special equipment to repair or just use some software is suffice?

[cornmouse]

oh ignore my question. I googled and found out the answer

[cornmouse]

i saw that the technician uses the program - SpeedClone!

Anyway, wanna seek your advice, bad sectors problem can be repaired by reformatting or shall I send in the hard disk for warranty?

[Alexii]

when u get ur data back - waranty return the drive imo.

[cornmouse]

Hello,
I really need help here. I gave another external disk (1.5TB) to the guy to transfer my data onto it. I thought he would just copy the data to unused portion of the disk but he reformatted my disk! The problem is how can I get back the data that was on my disk before the reformat? I've tried Undelete Plus, Recuva and PC Inspector File Recovery. None of them helps!

Thanks!

[BlackST]

What is overwritten is lost.

[Alexii]

If he just formated ur drive and didnt write on it - try using R-Studio or RecoverMyFiles. If he formated ur drive and wrote on it - ur old data was overwriten and u wont get it. Sry. There are a lot of nuances to this though , how much data did u have when u gave him the drive, how much data did he write when he formated ur drive etc.

[cornmouse]

i'm trying EASEUS now.

[Alexii]

a lot of ppl dont like easus. I use it from time to time , its not that bad, but very slow. Dont hope much for the structured recovery. Search through the RAW folder it will create for u and go by extensions. Ull lose filenames so will have toclick manually on a lot of em.

[cornmouse]

actually i only need to know the list of the files that were on the disk