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Electrocuted Hard Drive
I have a client who's hard drive can't be read anymore however much information there is (was) on it and no matter how I try I get nothing. This is a WD 20Gb and it's a few (3) years old.
This drive has been formatted EISA and they were running windows XP Home on it until it suffered and electric shock. This was more than a small jolt, this drive really got it.
An electrician, touched the wrong wiring in the building that sent a shock throughout the place and fried this drive. By the way, it cost him a leg, such was the severity of this.
I can't get any kind of reading from the drive and it's only when I used the FDisk {Just to look} to see what was going on that I discovered that this was an EISA hard Drive. It showed EISA and that's it.
They had also installed windows XP. When I asked about this, the owner told that this is how he got it and made no changes.
Is there a program out there, that does a Forensic Determination and possibly a restoration for such a drive?
Or is this one of those cases where I would have to take it in to the experts?
As the drive is used for accounting, he would very much like to have the information back if possible and so I was wondering if there was a program out there that might do the job or at the very least, help me in restoring this drive, if it's at all possible.
As to why it was an EISA instead of a Fat32 or NTSF I have no idea. They wee running XP so Naturally I thought it was either a Fat 32, or NTFS.
I would be grateful for any advice at all, on this.
I Thank you in advance.
Aaron