Laptop Hard Drive Crashed - Need Help Rescuing Files

[George Bieniaszek]

Hi All:

Does anyone have a recommendation that they used to help retrieve files (pictures, Word and Excel) from a crashed hard drive? Need to reformat and re-install Windows 7 too.

Thanks

[PennBF]

Not sure if it will work but if you can get to the hard drive you may want to consider taking it out, putting it in the refrig for a few hours and then try to
retreive some of/all of the data by immediately transfering to a device.
Good luck. This works sometimes?:confused:

[jnieman]

Hi All:

Does anyone have a recommendation that they used to help retrieve files (pictures, Word and Excel) from a crashed hard drive? Need to reformat and re-install Windows 7 too.

Thanks

A friend took his to the Geek Squad at Best Buy.

[jnieman]

Hi All:

Does anyone have a recommendation that they used to help retrieve files (pictures, Word and Excel) from a crashed hard drive? Need to reformat and re-install Windows 7 too.

Thanks

A friend took his to the Geek Squad at Best Buy.

[George Bieniaszek]

Thanks for the suggestions. Did anyone take their computer to "thevillages.net" location in LSL? I see that they do some servicing to computers.

[zcaveman]

I took mine to MMD and they installed a new hard drive and recovered everything.

Z

[jojo]

MMD recovered all of my data when my hard drive crashed.

[SantaClaus]

It depends on what you mean by crashed. If it simply won't mount it can probably be recovered. If you are a little tech-savvy a great tool for recovering drives with damage to the boot sectors (a likely cause for not mounting) is called Spin-Rite.

On the other hand, if the drive is making a click-click-click sound it's probably toast, unless you want to go to the expense of having the platters remounted in a new drive (forensic recovery can run $1200+).

[Computer Corner]

As santa Clause said, it all depends on how damaged it is. Most of the time we can get the data off no problem. If you need help, give us a call. We will put a new HDD in, get your data, and re-install your operating system as speedy as we can.

[George Bieniaszek]

As santa Clause said, it all depends on how damaged it is. Most of the time we can get the data off no problem. If you need help, give us a call. We will put a new HDD in, get your data, and re-install your operating system as speedy as we can.

Thank you all for responding to my inquiry!!

CFLGeek -- Will give you a call when we are back in The Villages in 2 weeks.

[NoMoSno]

When you get this sorted out, invest in a under $100 portable HD.
Back up data WITH a system image.
Laptop HDs are notorious for crashing.

[George Bieniaszek]

When you get this sorted out, invest in a under $100 portable HD.
Back up data WITH a system image.
Laptop HDs are notorious for crashing.

Absolutely NoMoSno!! I have been looking at them on line and that will be something I will purchase soon.

Do you have a recommendation?

[NoMoSno]

Absolutely NoMoSno!! I have been looking at them on line and that will be something I will purchase soon.

Do you have a recommendation?

I have been using this one:

WD My Passport 1TB Portable External Hard Drive Storage USB 3.0 Black

(Amazon)Western Digital

I use Windows backup.
Creating a "system image"also restores your programs, updates, bookmarks,etc.

Just have to remember to backup periodically.

[George Bieniaszek]

Thanks NoMoSno.

Will look at that one and more than likely purchase it.

Guess we have to learn the hard way and get into a routine of baking up regularly.

Appreciate your input :)