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A few days ago my area suffered a series of rapid power surges, my computer was on and my hard drive was wrecked. I found the problem, called dell, talked with them and they shipped me a relpacement, however, my old drive had close to $1000 of music, and also some rather important school documents. I was wondering if you could salvage data from my drive or name some places that can help me out. Thanks.
I would call around in your area to see if any of the computer places in town know how to do this. Keep in mind that there is a possibility that your hard drive is totally destroyed mechanically/electronically and you may not be able to recover anything by traditional recovery. If this is the case, there are places online that can rip it apart and recover your data on a deeper level but they are much more expensive. Its all about what your data is worth to you. This can sometimes be a hard lesson in backing up. Good luck.
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-> Is there power to the hard drive? -> Is there a pop up stating that new hardware is found, but cannot open the hard drive? Lets try something: Ok, there are a few steps that I need you to do... with your Hard drive plugged into the computer, goto: -> DESKTOP (front page of the computer) -> right click on MY COMPUTER -> left click on MAP NETWORK DRIVE -> left click on the DRIVE Z: -> now that this is open, look for an open drive (ex:O,P,Q - do not pick A,C or Z drive), so we won't wreck another drive when creating a spot for your Hard drive and remember the open drive letter, and close off this page.
Now that you have the drive letter: -> Right click on MY COMPUTER -> left click on MANAGE -> look for DISK MANAGEMENT and left click on it -> you should see Volume for SYSTEM and UNKNOWN or REMOVABLE -> right click on unknown/removable and assign/change to the drive letter from the previous task -> press ok to save
Hello,
your drive suffered a head crash and the only way to get the data from it now is with a Data recovery center. If you do not need the data and your drive is under warranty, contact LaCie to get a replacement.
Regards,
1. bad data-cable between computer and external drive;
2. the USB-to-disk-drive adapter inside the casing has failed;
3. the disk-drive inside the casing has failed.
Advice:
1. try a different cable;
2./3. disassemble the drive, and extract the disk-drive, and try to connect it as a "slave" drive in a desktop computer, to see if the drive itself is OK.
a power surge may have fried it if you don't have a breaker switch on the plug that you plug your power supply into. The only way to really determine is to connect your photo frame into a second power supply if you have one to see if it works. I found out the hard way to always have a circuit breaker for my computer units after a power out fried my computer hard drive.
-> Is there power to the hard drive?
-> Is there a pop up stating that new hardware is found, but cannot open the hard drive?
Lets try something:
Ok, there are a few steps that I need you to do... with your Hard drive plugged into the computer, goto: -> DESKTOP (front page of the computer) -> right click on MY COMPUTER -> left click on MAP NETWORK DRIVE -> left click on the DRIVE Z: -> now that this is open, look for an open drive (ex:O,P,Q - do not pick A,C or Z drive), so we won't wreck another drive when creating a spot for your Hard drive and remember the open drive letter, and close off this page.
Now that you have the drive letter: -> Right click on MY COMPUTER -> left click on MANAGE -> look for DISK MANAGEMENT and left click on it -> you should see Volume for SYSTEM and UNKNOWN or REMOVABLE -> right click on unknown/removable and assign/change to the drive letter from the previous task -> press ok to save
That should get you to your Harddrive on your computer.
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