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By Adesh on Oct 25, 2007

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Hi,

My samsung 40GB hard drive crashed 3 weeks ago.
The tech guys failed to run it as a secondary and did also try retreiving the data through softwares , but have failed.
How can get my data back .
Lot's of family photos stored on them .
My drive is under warranty and is 1 and half year old
Please help

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posted on Oct 25, 2007

judesoul

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if your HD cannot be detected anymore..then there would be 90% chance that your data's cannot be retrieve. however, if it is still functional as a secondary drive but the partition is damage..try using FileScanvenger to retrieve the data.

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