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29th April 2018, 14:41 | #11 |
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Modern hard drives are pretty robust, but sometimes the electronics in the external caddy (case) aren't. A fault can easily stop the drive from spinning up, or being recognised. New cases are available quite cheaply on eBay etc.
I've had a couple of similar external hard drive failures after only a few months of use. In both instances I transferred the hard drives into new cases (a simple job), and both drives worked fine. All the data was still there, and they are still working. It's worth a try, before going to the expense of data retrieval from a hard drive that may be actually OK. Just a thought, Jim
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If the value of the data for you is less than what you need to pay to recover it, skip it and accept your loss. It's a small loss anyway, because it's less than the modest amount you have to pay for using the software https://www.cleverfiles.com/hard-dri...-recovery.html .
If you don't mind expenses, check the Disk Drill app, but it's pretty pricey Last edited by OliverTailor; 18th July 2018 at 12:39.. |
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Thanks for all the replies, my data was not recoverable so I am busy trying to reconstruct what I can but at least I now know where I am at.
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1st please don't open up the hard drive, they're sealed and one spec of dust and it's a gone.
I know you said that it was unrecoverable, one thing I did to a hard drive that was unreadable was I used a SATA to USB cable and it reads the drive like a usb drive. Once I did this I started in safe mode and then the hard drive was readable, I managed to recover 80% of the contents, for the sake of £10 it's worth a go |
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