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by jukden

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I am looking for the article "200 ways to save a hard drive" that several people have said is on this site, yet I can't locate it. When my father tries to start his computer, he gets a message "drive not found." We need to see if we can fix this (my brother took HDD out and tried to run it on his computer, didn't work). We also need to see if there's some way to get data out of it before returning it to Gateway for replacement. (My Mom is concerned about financial info they had on it gettinginto wrong hands.) Any help would be appreciated.

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by ann777

Click on the left-side yellow part of the page called Resources where you see the link for "Downloads." Then in the search string type "200 ways to" and the first link is to the download.

by hootie14

Did you try running your father's HDD as a secondary hard drive and try accessing it that way.

by fenaikh

Hi

This is what you ask for the link:
200 ways to revive a hard drive
https://www.techrepublic.com/download_item.jhtml?id=dr00320000510jed01.htm.

the second part is to make a lowlevel format which is really filling it with zeroes which you have to download from the hard disk manufacturer. or use a security utility which realy destroy data.
To check if your data could be recover i would try easyrecovery from ontrack wher the have a taril version to see list but not to recover.
http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery.

Good luck

Mohamed

by fenaikh

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by fenaikh

instead of taking a risk is it possible to tell the vendor that you need to buy and install a new hard disk to keeb the the old hard disk with you to avoid the risk of recovering data or wors physically damage or Destroy the Media or purchsing a security wipe tool
and before that purchsing a recovery tool to check for data.

I hope this help

Good luck

Mohamed

by bunkoramo9

I had a problem with my H/D it was a Maxtor so I found a utility on their site called Max Blast.
It is designed for help with installing a drive. It will also do a very good copy from one drive to another of similar size. I lost all the data but the disk worked fine after that. Other manufacturers also have similar utilities you could try. These will usually work with other brands anyway.

by tosin

what you need to do is that you will connects another hard drive that is workin properly as a master while you connect that crash one as a slave, then you will now transfer the information on it to the good one.
you will use it to acces it partition.

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