Is there anything that can be done so that when your hard drive fails it can be totaly restored to another hard drive? I have a 3 year old Dell PC with the XP OS. Thanks.
You can buy a program called Casper XP it will clone your hard drive to another hard drive on your system. The two drives must be the same in size, and both internal, You can than boot to any of the two drives or if one fails you can boot to the backup one and everthing will be there. Here is the web site for Casper XP, http://www.fssdev.com I have been using this for a while now and it really is the best and easiest on the market. Obviously after the drive is dead you can't back it up. You may need to find a specialist who may be able to retrieve some of the information from a dead drive, but you really are going to pay money for it. The following site is a specialist data recovery site http://www.fields-data-recovery.co.uk Hope this helps.
Zenon gave great advice, but I', reading your post as "My drive broke and now I need to recover data". Maybe I am just misreading it, but it sounds like you want to image a drive that has already failed. It is possible, depending on teh type of failure. You just need to ne patient and continue to try to retreive data. AS far as being preventative, follow Zenons advice.....keep an up to date image of your drive handy at all times. ~Rich
Question? I got a hard drive a old 30g maxtor 7200rpm and it completely dead...Is there anyway that...I can get my information off that drive that ...I have on there? if anyone knows please pm a message...Thanks
If the harddrive won't actually work and assuming it's not the IDE cable not plugged in properly there is only one solution,transfer the platters to another hdd that's the same,the only prob with doing so is making sure no dust or dirt etc gets on them,including finger prints,i would assume assembly of hdd's is done in a controlled enviroment of some sort,if i did'nt have that sort of setup i would do it in the bathroom as it's the least dusty or more to the point the dust is stuck to the walls...lol...,it would be possable to make a small'ish cabinet with a perspex window and use rubber gloves that you put your hands thru from the outside,or if it aint to difficult transfer the circuit boards over,bear in mind any dust etc on platters will possably corrupt them
Thanks 4 ur advise scorpNZ...I will try that solution to my problem first...I gotta find a hard drive of the same type another words that looks alike...I dont wanna make a mistake in the tranfer...LOL
It would most probably be easier doing the circuitboard replacement first,make sure the harddrive works before pulling it apart and the tools to be used must be a good fit instead of ill-fitting in case screw damage occurs ,if when everything appears undone but the part won't lift off re-check to make sure all screws are removed if there's a label check to see if there's a screw underneath it,a little finger pressure should reveal a indentation if there is
Sounds silly, but I've heard that if you place the drive in a freezer for a time, it may free up enough to work for a while due to shrinkage of the parts. This may help if its the bearings that have gone t/u. Never tried it myself, and if it did free up, you would want to transfer your data off of it as fast as you possibly can.
hey ah guys,i have a IBM deskstar 40GB hard disk,after i have move around 1.26gb it starts to say on windows xp popup "windows fails to write to drive" something like that so i was wonder if i can fix it myself instead of buying a new one.coz i already have 3X80gb harddisk.any opinion. and sorry i know this sounds silly but can i install mac osx in a notebook that does not come from mac.coz i have read it in a site that you can install mac osx if your notebook has a function to boot osx.but i am not saying the new notebooks that has dual-core.i am using intel centrino genuine intel x86 family 6 model 13.so i was wondering if anyone has a clue bout it.thanks in advance
