Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
October 11th, 2011, 16:06
I am hoping that someone here can help me out I was brought a laptop a couple of days ago that had a crashed windows install or at least that is what I was told ahead of time they also brought a nice shinny new drive which was installed as they wanted a larger drive anyway. Ok enough with the back story
well when I hooked up the old drive to my pc to transfer documents over I find a dead drive or to be exact a spinning drive that the PC can't detect it freezes at the bios screena dn windows if i hook it up after boot. I need any thoughts on this if someone would be so kind so that if needed I can recommend it be sent out to a recovery shop.
Thanks,
Yonu
October 11th, 2011, 20:47
High chance the drive has mechanical problems or just bad sectors if lucky, but one would not know for sure until performing a professional in depth diagnostic.
If you want to send the drive to a pro and get some recommendations for one here on the forum, then post your location by country and even city.
October 13th, 2011, 19:57
I was thinking mechanical thanks.
I am located in Fayetteville, NC US
October 13th, 2011, 20:29
yonu wrote:I was thinking mechanical thanks.
I am located in Fayetteville, NC US
I would recommend Jono-ats, he is in Atlanta, GA and closest one to you.
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