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Unfortunate Post (Hard Drive Recovery Help)
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| Anas Attia |
Some of you maybe have been in my situation before, I am wondering if anyone has had an experience dealing with recovery/restore companies.
Essentially, this 1TB drive has been infected by an old school virus, screwed with the system table and I was unable to boot from it. I got recent production files on the thing, and all im looking for is just those files (cubase .cpr files)
Id greatly appreciate it if someone can recommend a place for me, (Canada) or maybe there is some cheap international joint I could ship it to.
Thanks for the help.
I must add it has been through two computer technicians that could not do anything, they both recommended my only rout was a professional recovery service. |
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| KilldaDJ |
| have u tried any data recovery programs? i mean like...by yourself? |
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| user19503 |
| how bout booting from a linux dist CD/DVD and then copy the needed files from the disk to a diferent disk? |
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| Anas Attia |
| quote: | Originally posted by KilldaDJ
have u tried any data recovery programs? i mean like...by yourself? |
Essentially I tried along with the technicians that came to my home. Since the virus messed the system structure these programs didn't even recognise the hard drive all together.
But I have heard there are programs out there that can look at raw data alone and can in fact help me in this situation, but I am rather unfamiliar. |
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| Anas Attia |
| quote: | Originally posted by user19503
how bout booting from a linux dist CD/DVD and then copy the needed files from the disk to a diferent disk? |
Am I able to do this if the drive's partitions are unrecognisable? I've never used linux before, always wanted to tho ;) |
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| user19503 |
| dont know, i only thought u had boot problem. its worth a shot atleast. ubuntu DVD for example. |
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| Anas Attia |
| quote: | Originally posted by user19503
dont know, i only thought u had boot problem. its worth a shot atleast. ubuntu DVD for example. |
Im going to grab a sata to usb cable and give it a shot, it doesn't seem to want to function when plugging it in straight to sata on my board. Thanks for the suggestion il try it and let you know. |
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| user19503 |
| try it on a diferent computer, maybe its a damaged motherboard or something else. |
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| Anas Attia |
| You are right I will try it somwhere else (sata), but I have a very strong notion that it is simply the virus. |
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| Zombie0729 |
i had a hard drive fail after a brown out in my last apartment around 07. I was only backing up once every 45 days at that time :clown: so i lost 2 midterm papers along with 3 projects for work i was doing. i had no choice but to recover it.
i found a place that was nationally ranked and thankfully was local here. I submitted the drive, got a phone call and they quoted me $1,700. WHOA! I told them i couldn't' afford it, the kid was really cool he told me since it was a western digital drive that if i went into WD's website, went to HD recovery they were listed as an approved repair service and they had to do the repair for no more than $625 (they were in contract with WD to do so). SWEET! I paid the $625 and they gave me a 250gig myPassport drive with all the folders i had requested be recovered.
So my suggestion to you is to go to the HD manufacturers website and see what options you have. |
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| owien |
in the past when this type of thing has happend to me would be to re-formate the hard drive run a os ie xp ect run recovery software and find the files you lost.
it maybe that the virus has messed up the hard drive enough so that it makes it impossable to use again.
try and decide is it really that important to recover what you lost in the first place. |
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| KilldaDJ |
| quote: | Originally posted by owien
in the past when this type of thing has happend to me would be to re-formate the hard drive run a os ie xp ect run recovery software and find the files you lost.
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thats the most ridiculous thing ive ever heard. you will end up with holes in your files even if you did manage to get even a fragment back. |
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