Posted: 6/1/2005 4:54:13 PM EDT
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I have a HD that crashed tried making it a slave to get off some paper work but it says the slave drive has failed. Any hope of getting back my files? |
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I posted this on here for a similar problem, but I will post it again, because I have had lots of luck with this method. Stick the drive in a Zip-Lock bag, and freeze it. After a couple of hours in the freezer, quickly hook it back up and see what you can recover. I have used this method at work for getting important data off of drives, and it works the majority of the time. If that doesnt do it, the only way to get the data off is through a data recovery specialist. |
+1 I did the same thing after I lost a compter in the hurricane. Windows said it was bad, Knoppix loaded it right up. |
downlod the HD diagnostic from the mfgr's site and run it. |
good suggestion, I use knoppix just about everyday to get data off drives. XP user passwords are no match for me  another +1 on the freezer trick, it DOES work leave in on the freezer over night you might just get your data back
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| He has two disk drives. When he saves something, it gets saved to both drives (redundancy). If one drive fails, he automatically has the other as a back-up. All he has to do is get another drive to replace the failed one and back up the data to the new one, so he can continue the redundancy. |
He's not kidding that really works, just becareful with the zip lock as those tend to attract static electricity. |
| There is a free download available called the "Ultimate Boot CD Utility" here It allows you to boot from a cd rom and run diagnostics and in my case I was able to force the drive to mount and run. I had already bought and loaded an OS on a new drive but it wouldn't run as a slave either until I ran some of the diagnostics and repair apps on the disc i made from the above mentioned download. On a scale of 1-10 I feel my knowledge and ability is about a 7 or 8 in this area, and i was very pleased with the result. There were many bad sectors on the drive and I couldn't get everything but I did get what I needed off of it. If you have no clue at all about what you are doing it will probably be difficult, but I'm no expert and did Ok and didn't cost anything but my time which was about 3 hours. |
knoppix and Windows PE are great copying files off of drives if the file system is still intact. I can't tell you how many times I've saved someone's ass who was looking at "No Boot Device" PC and all it took was booting off the CD and copying their important files over to a USB HD. But if NTFS is damaged, then you need some specific data recovery tools. I like Ontrack's Easy Recovery Pro, available at FOSI's. |