Hey so I'm looking to have my external harddrive repaired because somehow it became unallocated and the partitions are invisible to all software recovery programs used thus far recuva pareto photorec recovermyfiles disktest etc etc
I've also taken it to a computer repair shop that charged $30 to attempt to find something ($149 if found) and they came up with nothing. So I need a professional place or person that can crack it open and get the mechanics right. Thing is every place I see in Chicago claims to do data recovery but it appears they charge the same $30-45 try and $150 if fixed price which makes me think they're only running the same shit I did and charging me. Does anyone know of a true tech person or lab in Chi that can physically repair a hdd?
PoppaGeorge Member since Nov 07th 2004 10384 posts
Sat Oct-03-15 02:11 PM
1. "did any of them pull the drive out of the enclosure?" In response to Reply # 0
did any of them rebuild the partition table?
I had a drive like that and before I could recover data from it I had to restore the partitions and pull the drive out of the enclosure and attach it directly to my PC.
One that had the partition table corrupted required me to reformat the drive just to make it readable by Windows, then I could run Recuva and PhotoRec.
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2. "I saw that suggested a few places" In response to Reply # 1
So how did you connect the hdd without the case, and how exactly did you rebuild the partitions? Also after intializing your drive where you able to recover all files with Recuva? I'm willing to do it myself with solid instruction.
3. "Microcenter is your friend" In response to Reply # 2 Sun Oct-04-15 11:41 AM by DVS
You can buy a SATA or IDE (if you ancient) external connector for your drive for like 30 bucks. Taking it out of the enclosure is as simple as a few screwdrivers and a Youtube search.
Someone else will have to speak on the rebuilding partitions part....I've used Partition Magic to expand my partitions on the fly, but I've never had to rebuild them on a defective drive.
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