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elane
19 yrs ago
My computer is broken and I took it to a shop in the Wanchai computer center to have it looked at. Apparently the disk inside the hard drive and the IDE control chip is broken. To recover the data they want to charge me 3,000. The catch is that there is no guarantee all the material will be recovered. They gave me an exp. that if I had 50 files and they recovered 1 of the files, they will still charge me 3,000 for it! Anyone know of a reasonable place that I can take my computer to to get the files recovered? Thanks in advance!
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I have a similar situation in that I need to recover all my pictures off an old hard drive that is broken.
Any help much appreciated.
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It is unclear to me if your hard disk crashed, or your controller died, or both. IF it is a desktop and IF it is the controller that failed I would pull the hard drive and put it in another machine to see if the hard drive still functions - and back up the data right there!
I would also try a linux live cd - if your hardware failed, linux shouldn't work either, but stranger things have happened, so nothing is lost by trying except your time - again, if it does boot, you had better be ready to back up your data immediately!
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elane
19 yrs ago
Thanks for your response. Apparently the computer repair center indicated that both the hard disk and the controller died. Also, my computer is a laptop. Any other suggestions?
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According to MSI and Seagate, controllers are still on the desktop motherboards and the drive is connected to the controller with a cable. Possibly laptops are different, but having never delved into the internals of laptops I can't say.
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elane
19 yrs ago
Thanks everyone for your input. I will give your suggestions a try. Hope I can recover the hard drive!
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AshHK
19 yrs ago
depends on what exactly is the problem... the cost of recovery can vary from 1K onwards..
Lemme know if you need help with it.
Peter
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