[Hidden-tech] Retrieve data on external hard drive

Greg Perham glp at gregperham.com
Thu Oct 24 14:22:47 EDT 2013


Hi George,

The first thing I would try is SpinRite. Don't be put off by the ancient website design. If the drive is up to the task mechanically, SpinRite will recover anything that is recoverable. It may take hours or a day, depending on the type of damage, but it will get everything possible.

Greg


On Oct 24, 2013, at 5:56 AM, George Forman wrote:

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> A colleague of mine who works in Honolulu cannot open a back up drive that contains 3 years of work.  She is absolutely undone by this lost.  The drive contain 3,000 video clips of a demonstration preschool that presents an innovative approach to early childhood education.  The drive will boot then crash.  The standard attempts to repair the directory have not worked.  She was told by a company in Honolulu that it would cost $700 to retrieve the data.  Doesn't that sound like way too much money?  Does anyone know of a reliable service that can retrieve the data for less?  She has a Western Digital, 2 terabyte drive that is about 75% full.  I would then call your recommended service to learn what is involved in retrieving data (dust free room, manual retrieval versus batching it, etc.) and communicate this information back to my colleague. 
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