pulling information off a crashed hard drive

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - pulling information off a crashed hard drive

Posted: 1/25/2009 2:56:01 PM EDT

So.. my computer crashed and tells me there is no operating system on the disk. I take the hard drive out and put it an another computer as a slave. The second computer tells me I need to format the drive (I did not take the computer up on this suggestion.) Is there anything else I should try so I can possible recover some information on the hard drive?

Thanks

Posted: 1/25/2009 3:28:15 PM EDT

[#1]

Time to bite the bullet and pay the pros to recover your files.

That reminds me, I need to call the pooter store and see if they were able to save the po, err, files off of my old HD.

Posted: 1/25/2009 4:39:59 PM EDT

[#2]

Had good results recently on a malfunctioning compact flash card. My box indicated that the card needed to be formatted. Used this program -

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Main_Page

To grab all the photos off of the card. Haven't tried it on a HD yet; last time I had the problem you describe the master/slave trick worked.

Link not hot 'cause I'm lazy.

Posted: 1/25/2009 5:10:26 PM EDT

[#3]

thanks for the help. I've been talking to Sony. In my case I was able to press F10 in the bios and reinstall the operating system from a special portion of the hard drive. It looks like the HD is okay, the operating system had the problem.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - pulling information off a crashed hard drive

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