aprocfu
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- May 25, 2007
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Hi, I would like to know if somebody knows about a machine that can rescue or extract data from dead hard drives that even BIOS does not recognize it sometime.
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Dead hard disk access machine
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goombawaho
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You can boot the computer with something like a Bart PE CD that has it's own self-contained operating system on it and then you can try to browse for files and transfer them to a USB memory stick. You could put the drive in as a slave in another computer and see if it's visible also.
Failing that, you need data recovery services (approx $600)
is the one our company uses for customer hard drives that have kicked the bucket.
Failing that, you need data recovery services (approx $600)
is the one our company uses for customer hard drives that have kicked the bucket.
Not machines, they are called Professional Recovery Services.
If the BIOS won't pick it up, there's very little you can do.
You could try running a DOS only cloner and clone the drive in DOS only when BIOS can pick it up. You might then be able to get at the data. However if the information is very important, I'd take it to a recovery service.
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