I'd just like to say BEWARE to anybody who uses a Qtec PSU in their PC. I heard of a few problems with these units before, and didn't bother replacing mine in any hurry. DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID. A surge came from inside the PSU one day, not only destroying itself, but also taking down my 200GB hard disk with ALL my data on it, as well as a stick of RAM. I am now going to have to pay untold hundreds of pounds for data recovery on it, and another large sum to replace components. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED <if anyone in the UK knows a good Data recovery service, let me know... ;-)>
Professional data recovery is seriously expensive! Unless what you lost is of serious importance such as your files for work or whatever I would forget it. For a few movies and mp3's its not going to be economical. Bet you wont forget to backup your files again
You could try http://www.diskdoctorsdatarecovery.co.uk/ just found it by googling it, starting at £499, give them a call... But like Pro'noob says if its MP3's and video etc i wouldnt bother... : ) Backup! Backup! Backup! Thats what i say, i always have a hard backup on CD and DVD's.... This also could happen with [bold]ANY[/bold] PSU, you have just been unlucky
it could have, but would have been far less likely. I have made backups of everything of critical importance, I don't want 150GB of anything to be lost.... Plus of course, there's a lot of expensive software on there, which I'll want back. I found "fields data recovery" on google, and they reckon £350 ish to recover the data, and supply a replacement 200GB disk in an external enclosure. Now time to see if this is actually affordable... Seriously though, having been warned about Qtec PSUs before, I really would say that its significantly more likely to occur with those than the replacement Hiper unit i have asked for.
I was able to recover some files from a failed external drive by using a trial version of Zero Assumption Recovery from http://www.z-a-recovery.com Hope it works for you. Good luck!
You don't seem to understand, the drive is PHYSICALLY destroyed, i.e. doesn't spin up. I appreciate your help but i think DR is the only way to go here...
try 19 computers in portsmouth they did a disc recovery for one of my customers and it was quite cheap tel: 023 9273 3174 nothing to do with me
Pull the disk out of the hardrive and stick it in a know working hard drive. I actually mean the magnetic disk contained inside the hardrive. Then stick it another. I did it once and it worked...cant guarantte same resulst.
The one and only time i used a qtech PSU it took out two HDD's and a radeon 9800 pro card, i never ever trust cheap PSU's i have just bought a HYPER R Modular very stable and very quiet it pays to use a decent PSU.
Yeah I'm now running a Hiper Type-R Red label 480W PSU. Let's hope that suits.... To ozzy: From what I've heard that's extremely risky and I would never encourage anybody to do it, let alone myself. I think you just got lucky...
Hey like I said I cant guarentee results, but It worked when the drive went belly up even know I had 60 gigs from lime downloaded I wasnt bout to lose. My old lady would kick my ass and I took a chance. The drive is still in the comp, but I dont use it for nothing. Still spins up though and works. Maybe I did get lucky....:>
I have had success with something similar. Purchase the same drive (same model, hopefully you can get one that is close in production dates). Swap the board from drive to drive. (instead of the actual platters) Same results, but usually easier to do. Good luck.
Mmmm, I'm still not sure, especially since the original disk was made in Summer 2004... A bit of a waste if it doesn't work, it being 200GB and all.
