Hard Drive Recovery - Brisbane or Gold Coast

Cave Fire on 18/05/2018 - 22:21
Last edited 19/05/2018 - 08:50 by 1 other user

Seagate drive ST1000LM035 from an Acer laptop bought close to a year ago.

Unfortunately, saw a few YouTube videos and tried to fix. Only removed and cleaned and replaced PCB. Used to show folder structure in Win 10, but is now unreadable. Reports 1800 odd terabytes in testdisk. Tried gparted, puran utilities etc. Only Seatools seems to get some info, but no partitions.

Want a cost for drive recovery in Gold Coast or Brisbane.

Update: Found a website for drive recoverers in Texas. They have a software that produces bitmaps of LBA structure. Anyone know this software's name?

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Comments

  • FoxJump on 18/05/2018 - 22:55
    +1

    https://xkcd.com/1994/

  • altomic on 18/05/2018 - 22:58

    Reports 1800 odd terabytes in testdisk

    LOL

    it's (profanity)

  • ShannonN on 19/05/2018 - 01:09
    +1

    (https://www.payam.com.au/)
    Have a brissy office

    Not cheap up to 900 if its a hardware issue

    Have you tried to see partitions using Easus Partition Manager? or Windows management service - storage and looking for drive letter sometimes win 10 can hide drives for no reason and partitions but they will show as hidden in the management plugin

    • Cave Fire on 19/05/2018 - 08:17
      +1

      Shows but can't initialise the disk. Tried Easus with no luck.

      • ShannonN on 19/05/2018 - 22:42

        Try Ontrack
        Ontrack Free recovery software

        or if you know how many heads start and finish points you may be able to rebulid the table?
        If you had an old 486 with the old bios that allowed low level formatting, I've used those to enter the hdd heads parking data etc

        Hve you tried redoing the MBR etc. manually?

        • Cave Fire on 19/05/2018 - 22:50

          lol seems that way. For a second I thought I could do a scandisk or Dos might be more effective. Getting read errors with testdisk, this is after using Seatools to recognise it. Usually has a nonsense capacity. So not sure if it is actually reading anything.

        • ShannonN on 19/05/2018 - 22:55

          @shadako:
          DL the ontrack software dont install to damaged disk, run and see if it sees the files

          Ontrack writes most of the disk software that WD and Seagate use for their diagnostic progams

          Have you checked if the drive is a gpart or not has the computer bios been changed from uefi to legacy etc sometimes that throws detection off

          keep us informed hope you sort it

        • [Deactivated] on 19/05/2018 - 23:45

          @shadako: My 2TB recently crapped out like this. Makes a sound on bootup but then spins and is recognised but doesn't initialise. Only happened 2 weeks ago. If you find a solution, would love it.

        • Cave Fire on 20/05/2018 - 12:15

          @StoneSin: Well.. vids on youtube suggest opening in certain circumstances. This is only if you are comfortable with potentially losing the drive. Diy Perks. Only turn the spindle counterclockwise, I was experimenting and turn it clockwise ruining the heads on another drive. Another vid suggested opening the pcb on the back and cleaning, but this made mine worse. Somehow think someone clued up in Sunnybank or Mary Street should be able to fix.

  • blitz on 19/05/2018 - 10:05

    Can you get a SMART report?

    • Cave Fire on 19/05/2018 - 22:50

      Can with Seatools, but think this is a false positive.

  • The Wololo Wombat on 19/05/2018 - 10:23

    Try setapp they have for $10 a month lots of programs, including data recovery ones

  • renster72 on 19/05/2018 - 16:12

    Getdata back was a good tool

    • Cave Fire on 19/05/2018 - 22:52

      Give it a go…

  • ShannonN on 19/05/2018 - 23:03

    Maybe this can help? Mini Tool recovery

  • Clear on 20/05/2018 - 08:21

    All these comments on software recovery only work for certain types of data loss e.g. deleting a file. Continuous use of these programs or even letting the drive spin can degrade the drive further.

    You're better off speaking to an actual professional at a data recovery company. A quick Google will give you a good list of top rated that'll do it and many offer to look at your drive and tell you what's wrong for free.

    I've previously used Toba in Melbourne and Ontrack in QLD with success. CBL Data Recovery are worth looking at too.

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