Laptop Hard Drive Crashed - Need Help Rescuing Files
 

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

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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:

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

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

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

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

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

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+).

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.

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?

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.

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 :)