There are many problems that can occur with a hard disc and to recover your data you will need some type of hard disc recovery. Whether you have simply deleted files that you want to recover or done something much worse there are options for recovery your information. You need to remember that when you erase a file it is not actually deleted.
Your hard disc does not actually delete a file when you erase it. What occurs is that the space where that file was has now been labeled as free. So when you save a new file eventually your computer will write over this spot. It is only then that the file will be completely deleted.
There are plenty of software that can recover your files whether you have deleted them or a virus has made them inaccessible. Hard disc recovery reconstructs those deleted files. Even if you have a hardware issue you can still get that data from your hard disc.
However opening your hard drive is an issue. Most times if you have a mechanical problem than it can cost a lot of money to recover that information. You can damage your hard drive if you open it yourself.
A professional will open the hard drive in the right environment so that the disc is not further damaged. They will then transfer the data to a stable disc.
However the best way to have hard disc recovery is to make a back up of all your files. You need to have at least two different backups. Most individuals will have a hard disc back up an external drive or other source and have a back up on your computer. You also can prevent issues such as defragmenting your drive and having correct security and virus protection.
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#1 by pyroman251@sbcglobal.net on January 30th, 2010
#2 by guzen on January 30th, 2010
@a544jh Yep, and you can play music on it as well
Find an old hard drive, and search for How to make a HDD speaker.
#3 by nacao on January 30th, 2010
So thats why old computers make that weird noise when you turn them on. I always wondered what it was, lol.
#4 by so annoyed! on January 30th, 2010
I think you can solve this problem by yourself if you have the Windows CD. It is better if you have the same version CD which you are using, or even if you dont have you can try solving it.
Please give me the windows version so that I can suggest you the exact steps which appear on screen.
Try repairing the operating system, and then try fixing errors on the hard disk using the chkdsk /f utility.
It is not difficult as you think.
#5 by steve j on January 31st, 2010
You data structures might have be clobbered by a power spike of some sort, or a chip on the controller card might have failed. You say you can't access anything, that tells me it's a controller failure. A disk-drive repair company would be able to swap out controllers because they would have matching controller cards from the manufacturers. This is not something for anyone to try at home as the manufacturers frequently make changes on their controller cards and the probablility of having a matching card is very low.
Hopefully, it is just a failed controller board that won't allow access to the data on the disk surface. If that is all that is wrong, the repair should not cost much.
If the controller was writing data to the disk when it failed, then there is a possibility the data structures are all messed up. Recovering data then becomes very expensive.
Steve Gibson of Gibson Research has written a program called SpinRite, it's been on the market for several years, updated frequently, that is supposed to read the surface of a hard disk and analyze it for validity. Check his website for more information. There's a lot of "grandstanding" and "puff" but it's been that way for years on his site (since before 1999).
I've never needed the program but am considering getting it due to having to worry about my backups that I reinstall after I get hit with malware. I want the program to verify my hard drives every so often.
http://www.grc.com
See what others have written about SpinRite :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinrite
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A program that can look at the contents of a disk can be found at
http://www.killdisk.com/
You can get a download of a free program that wipes your drive. You say, what do I want to wipe my drive for?
Included in that program is an option to view the contents of your hard drive. It's not a very flexible interface but it's a start for you, if you can't read data with this program, you might have to consider going with a disk-drive repair company. I have used the free killdisk program to wipe drives and I have looked at data with the viewer just to see what is there.
The wipe-data function requires a pass-code to be entered before it starts, so it can't accidentally start from fumbling on the keyboard.
#6 by rawrr :} on January 31st, 2010
That is the disk you need just follow instructions
#7 by jpro on January 31st, 2010
@desertman123 aahaha feel sorry for de hd -_-!
#8 by telecaster80 on January 31st, 2010
If you don't value the services of a professional in times of an emergency, then you are free to do our jobs yourself.
Like the old car repair ads used to say: "You can pay me now or you can pay me later"
The internet is loaded with hundreds of ways to do this, but it all depends on how badly you damaged the data.
To do this right, you are going to have to gather up all the years of specific experience we have in diagnosing your own errors, and then figure out how to choose and use the right tools to make it right, without doing any further, possibly irreversible damage.
I hope you are not in a rush and that you are prepared to lose everything and explain to your daughter why her stuff is gone when it didn't have to be.
google is your friend
#9 by corpo on February 1st, 2010
Cool however its taking forever for this record player design to become obsolete. Im waiting for the day when theyll all be solid state and long lasting.
#10 by micheal on February 1st, 2010
#11 by rails on February 1st, 2010
I noticed at the end that the arm didn’t snap back to the landing zone. That makes me afraid to transport a disk if the machine hasn’t been properly shut down prior.
#12 by psychic on February 2nd, 2010
Great video.
#13 by earthlink on February 2nd, 2010
@hitman7112 well, i dunno… it still seems pretty magical to me. i don’t understand how it can delete a folder by moving that thing there. it doesn’t make any sense.
#14 by urbantool on February 2nd, 2010
0:28 That must be a fragmented folder
#15 by truth on February 2nd, 2010
Well if thats how the hd works i guess that rumbling coming from my hard drive when i download big files aint so dangerous, ain’t it?