craptop desktop crapped out w/ faulty HD.

any clue on recovery cost and recs in seattle?

holz

there may be some out of work Microsofties that could help you living under the highway overpasses pretty soon...

Hold on, don't go spending tons of money yet. Recovering a drive will cost $1000 or more since they have to find another model of your drive produced within a few weeks of yours (for firmware reasons).

I just lost my Seagate 500gb 7200.11 drive, turns out there is a major problem with this series FYI. Anyway, try some programs with trial versions to help you see if you can recover your data. I used these and recovered all of my data:

Partition Find and Mount
Nucleus Kernel NTFS/FAT

Search Lifehacker too, they have good articles about data recovery.

KO

holz,

First thing first. If the drive is physically broken then all hope is lost. But if the drive is just corrupt then you can get most everything back.

There is a chance that the partition table is screwed up and all you'll need is to fix that. The data may all still be there. Check out link

If that isn't the case:
I have heard that Getbackdata link works pretty well. It's $10.

Lastly, you may want to take it to the pros:
Someone in my office used
Disk Doctors
1100 Dexter Avenue North, Seattle
(800) 347-5388

Good luck, and post back if you have any luck

holz,

sorry to hear that. nothing worse. had that happen to me bout five years ago. the it guy i used at the time is now in cali. had a friend lose her drive a few months ago. i can reach out to her if you want. no cost if nothing is recovered. hella expensive if it is. lemme know if you want me to do so.

yikes. awesome. the new drive is under warranty. i'll sit on recovery. what a b*tch.

external backup hard drive is your best friend.

have you seen whether it will connect as an external to another computer? The cases and cables to do this are like $20, so it could be worth a shot. That way if something has only gone wrong with the booting capabilities you can retrieve whatever data was not affected.

agreed with rationalist to a point - depending on the damage to the disk, you should be able to read parts of the data (if not repair the bad segments on the drive as an external drive). However, I have seen in some cases where the type and extent of damage to the drive was such that connecting it externally did NOT allow for the computer you are connecting it to...to actually boot. Yes, I got the same blue screen error on the operating computer once I attached the bad drive as an external as I did on the bad drive (natively).

tried to email holz about this in his archinect "hidden email" thing now that I live in Seattle - but that bounced.

that's wierd. no BSOD, but definitely a hangup @ mup.sys

it's wierd it bounced. holz_box@yahoo.com

holz, i've had the same problem emailing you though archinect.

really? some go through. maybe i need to change it? wtf

l8rpeace- not saying it will work with certainty, just that it's such a cheap option that it's worth a try.

rationalist = genius.

new HD (warranty) - $0
used sata data cable - $5

spending 30 minutes to run chkdsk on bad drive and 80 minutes migrating old files to new drive - f*ckin priceless.

BOO-yah! maybe that should be my new facebook status...