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i was working on pc and suddenly i was hanging and i have to depress the rest button after which the system came on but the hard drive wont boot any more, and i system cannot detect the hard drive from the bios, i have some vital infiormations what do i do to recover this datas,
the product is seagate 8.4 Gb , having win98 as the os , i will apprecaite your reply on time thank you

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by tracertheart

We can recover a data.But need a skilled techincians help who specialist in harddisk.
U even do with some softwares help.

by tracertheart

Do u hear any noise while harddisk is turned on.
if u have a harddisk same seagate make 8.4 GB.then Replace the harddisk controller with failed harddisk controller temporily.boot to see whether u have a access to data.

by clutchmaster

you could use another hard drive and try to gain access to your other drive to get the data and after work on the hard disk.

maybe the power connections are not tight.
maybe your ide cable are d?fective.
maybe your psu does not work with power fluctuations...

by thechas

There is a download in the Download section of the Tech Republic web site.
200 ways to revive a dead hard drive

If any of the tips works for you, transfer the data to a new drive IMMEADIATELY!!

NOTE: Anything you do at this point will make it harder and more costly to use a data recovery service.
If the data is critical enough to be worth the cost of data recovery, you might want to just start there to reduce the risk of further data loss.

Chas

by maddiuex

The last resort is to FREEZE the hardrive for 3-6 hours, Have another hardrive ready with a Operating system and put the dead hard drive on as a secondary and get the info off as fast as possible, This work about 80 percent of the time, Conditions must be, The hard drive spins up, and no Clinking of the platters can be heard.

by frank.duffey

Norton Utilities has worked 80% on most hard drive problems.
Connect the drive as a secondary then boot from a known good operating system and run the utility you may also want to check @ http://www.cnet.com for the download free that will run the same type of program.

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