Kevin Trethewey

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[OT] Help with damaged hard disk

Published Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:22 PM

This is a plea to anyone in the Joburg area for some help. My girlfriend's PC crashed a short while ago and she did not have a backup of her photo archive that was on the disc (silly girl!). The photos mean a lot to her but the +- R3 500 that data recovery companies ask to look at the disc is just to much to shell out.

If anyone has a contact at a data recovery company or has some personal experience with getting data off bad discs and you are willing to help then *please* give me a shout, both myself and my better half would be seriously grateful...

[kevint [at] gmail [dot] com]

by Kevin Trethewey

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# Komkommer said on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:48 PM

I myself had some good experience with: the program 'Recover My Files'. Try looking for it on torrentspy.com, install a bittorrent client (azareus ?!) and off you go... Sure as @#$ beats R3 500 !! :-)

# Simon Stewart said on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 7:41 PM

I'll be going passed one of my clients tomorrow morning (a LARGE hardware distributor). Will ask ppl in the service dep. if they do anything like this. Else, what about contacting a data recovery company and offer an exchange of services?

# Andre Hartzenberg said on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:30 AM

Depending on what happened, you can still get everything back. If the disk is not physically damaged, there's a good chance of getting all back. If there's physical damage - such as a burnt out motor, data recovery is the only option. Whatever the case, just make sure the disk remains powered off... My mail address is andreha at gmail dot com

# Andrew said on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:12 AM

Mail me your details and we can provide you with a guy that should be able to sort your hard disk out for less than that... Andrew

# Jorgen said on Saturday, October 07, 2006 5:39 PM

hi man, is it a desktop?` if it is just get a moderate pc geek to take out the harddisk and put it in another desktop pc, he will most likely be able to read it if it is a notebook, you can buy external cases cheap, take out the disc and then connect it to another pc via usb cable. good luck

# ITrethewey said on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:31 PM

Thanks to everyone who responded to my post about recovering the data on my ladies' HD. I think there

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