Data recovery question

[Chrome2279]

Brehs,

I need some advice here, I have an old external hard drive that died that had a lot of family memorabilia moments that I want to recover. Windows won’t even recover the hard drive or see the drive. I’ll send it to an IT shop and they said the only way how I can get the data off of it is by sending it to a data recovery company. But I don’t know the first thing about that, or if there’s anything I can do that would be cheaper. Any suggestions for what I can do? Are there any companies to look out for or any deals that I should take advantage of that could get this data back without needing to spend too much?

 

[SATAN]

Your treasure trove of p0rn is lost forever, sorry bro

 

[Dr. Acula]

Never had to do this but I found this for you, but I would research more.
Data Recovery Services | Hard Drive & RAID Data Recovery by ACE Data Group
Seriously, despite it not being usually cool to mention the site here, I would just do a google search "data recovery services site:reddit.com" and look at the top voted comments on reddit threads to see what people most recommend. If I need to get a consensus view on something or a product, that is what I usually do.

edit: after using the technique i said above, a lot of people recommend this for small jobs like yours because most data recovery services are geared towards data center and enterprise level operations and cost a lot more
$300 Data Recovery

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Never had to do this but I found this for you, but I would research more.
Data Recovery Services | Hard Drive & RAID Data Recovery by ACE Data Group
Seriously, despite it not being usually cool to mention the site here, I would just do a google search "data recovery services site:reddit.com" and look at the top voted comments on reddit threads to see what people most recommend. If I need to get a consensus view on something or a product, that is what I usually do.

edit: after using the technique i said above, a lot of people recommend this for small jobs like yours because most data recovery services are geared towards data center and enterprise level operations and cost a lot more
$300 Data Recovery

I reddit search too. A lot of them white boys over there know their stuff when it comes to tech

 

[Chrome2279]

$300 Data Recovery

Thanks for all of your input, this is a pretty good find. I had a house fire a while ago so I lost a lot of things. Not limited to a lot of old pictures of my kids and family and this hard drive Is there a backed everything up at. Luckily It wasn’t damaged by the fire, but it died anyway. I’m just trying to recover what I can. You gave some pretty good advice, I appreciate the help on this thread.

 

[Money Be Green]

What kind of hard drive

 

[Chrome2279]

What kind of hard drive

It’s older, it’s this exact hard drive

Seagate 160GB USB 2.0 3.5" External Hard Drive - Newegg.com

 

[StretfordRed]

You can probably do it your self if you have the right tools and confidence

Normally, you can connect the HDD to a Linux machine with a write blocker or just a HDD to ISB cable, for it to be seen “raw” in a sense. If Linux sees it, then use “DD” to copy the raw image

From there, you’ll need to mount the image in the Linux box. Then you’ll rely on the “magic bytes” and the rest of the file header information to carve for files of choice. In your case you can narrow down to just image files. Tools like Foremost are key here
Foremost

It really depends on your skill levels with computing

 

[Money Be Green]

It’s older, it’s this exact hard drive

Seagate 160GB USB 2.0 3.5" External Hard Drive - Newegg.com

Crack that case open and pull the actual hdd out. And find an adapter to plug into your computer.





I had a smiliar issue before. 1 of my external hd stopped working. I just opened it up & bought a cheap case and it put it in there and it was good as new.

 

[Chrome2279]

Crack that case open and pull the actual hdd out. And find an adapter to plug into your computer.





I had a smiliar issue before. 1 of my external hd stopped working. I just opened it up & bought a cheap case and it put it in there and it was good as new.

I did that, windows is not recognizing the drive. Tried everything to get windows to identify it. The OS won’t see it so I can’t get into it. Not being able to do this is what prompted this thread.

 

[doublejump]

Going through this now myself. Will update when I get some more info.

Looks like I have to see a specialist which is a time and money sink.
I fukked up not using backups now I have to pay.

 

[Lord_nikon]

[QUOTE="Chrome2279, post: 35190387, member: 25387"]I did that, windows is not recognizing the drive. Tried everything to get windows to identify it. The OS won’t see it so I can’t get into it. Not being able to do this is what prompted this thread.[/QUOTE]

 

[Tunez]

You either do it yourself or send it off

Search best company