im currently looking for a place that can recover the data from a hard drive that belongs to my brother. hes an iraq war veteran  and his external hard drive recently crashed taking all of his images along with it. images that he cant get anywhere else (this WAS his backup)\n\nif you happen to work for acompany that frequently sends hard drives (or even on occasion) to get either repaired or the data recovered off of them...would you be willing to take my brothers drive and recover the information for me?\n\nthe reason i ask is because companies are asking between $1500 and $2500 to recover the files and i cant spare that kind of money . i would if i could.\n\nany assistance would be GREATLY appreciated.
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Hi,\nIf your brother's hard drive can be accessed through Windows, I think i can help.\nI have (I mean realy HAVE) a good software would be easily recover files from hard drives even if you repartition it.\ne-mail me\n\nBut\nIf your brother's hard drive is broken into parts, I am afraid you can do nothing for it.\n\nGood luck with that\n\nBy the way, I am Iraqi
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Not easily.\n\nYour best bet would be a professional data recovery firm - it'll be kind of pricey, so only do it if the data is really important.\n\nIf you were handy with a soldering iron, you could buy a new, identical flash drive, open the case, take off the memory chip, solder on the one from your broken drive, and hope it works long enough to get your data off.\n\nGood luck
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Check the disk to make sure there are no scratches on it, because the computer wont be able to read all of the information and will quit if it cant. Second, there may be something on your harddrive that may be corrupted and keeping the recovery from completing. The best way to solve the problem is to take it to someone that can hook it up and do a computer diagnostic on it to pin-point the exact problem you are having.
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Unless you buy or download some recovery software (called things like Undelete, etc), then it's not possible, unless you're willing to pay a data recovery company about $1,500 to retreive it for you.
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nope, that data is lost for good, you can remove that image from the external drive, but you can't recover the data that was there before he copied over it
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look on ebay, they sell a lot of recovery software from old systems there
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PC Inspector file recovery is a good s/w.\nI used it & gave nice perfomance.\nIts freeware so no expiry.\nDownload it from\n\nhttp://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm\n\nother sites are\nhttp://www.softwarepatch.com/software/filerecovery.html\nhttp://www.recovermyfiles.com/  (Trial version but better GUI)\n\nFor more try \nwww.google.com \nwith keywords\nfile recovery software free
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It is possible to recover these files with a free program called Free Undelete available at:\nhttp://officerecovery.com/freeundelete/\n\nBut the files will come back exactly as they were before, virus and all.  So pretty much you have to choose the less of 2 evils would you rather have the files back or would you rather have a virus on your computer.  If they are text files and you are still able to view them then it would be possible to simpily make a physical copy (paper and pencil style) then run your virus scan and delete them again then just retype the files (yes it takes a while but you get your info w/o the virus).
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I would sugest looking on Ebay for comparitive bids.\nYou can bookmark the auctions and see what they end at.\n\nI the screen wasn't scratched, the screen was bright, you had the restore cd.s (or restore partition intact) and manuals I would say a easy $850\n\nI wish the hard drive was a tad bigger for the price.\nMost nicer systems like yours have 80, 100 or 120 gb.
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That is extremely bad news, a few years ago it would be the worst. I'm afraid what you'll have to do is reformat the drive. \n\nFortunately all is not lost as there are two pieces of software that will recover the data from the drive after this has taken place.\n\nGetDataBack and Ontrack Easy Recovery - I've used GetDataBack before in the same situation and found it works brilliantly.\n\nThe best of luck, and next time remember to back up to DVD or CD.
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Not worth the effort. Guessing u want to dump "trashed" computer rather than get rid of the "horse". I'd get rid of the horse and save the computer. The other optionis "scrap" the hd (as thats only place the horse lives) and stick a blank (cheep used) ("F" disc it first and don't put anything on it) drive in it, and sell it for what ever....
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Yes it can be retrieved, but it requires a lot of computer programming knowledge, and as already stated is very costly.  I would just say it's safe to say that the file is unretrieveable.
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I would suggest you right click on my computer and go to manage and then that will bring up a console and you go to disk management and you should be able to see what it says about your external drive ie if its un allocated or w/e. Post back with that info, btw did this hard drive work correctly in your other computer before it broke down or did it break down because the hard drive broke down or what ?
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By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer 5 minutes ago \nWASHINGTON - \nPersonal data, including\nSocial Security numbers of 26.5 million U.S. veterans was stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee this month after he took the information home without authorization, the department said Monday. \nLast year, more than 260,000 veterans could not sign up for services because of cost-cutting. Audits also have shown the agency used misleading accounting methods and lacked documentation to prove its claimed savings."\n\nWell, this administration appears to have issues without having anything stolen.\n\nThose in the service 1975 and after are many military who were in quite a few skirmishes that the government had, including those in Iraq.\n\nI hope they have hard copies somewhere, which they probably don't. Proving a negative is going to be hard for a lot of men who are eligible for benefits. How do you get benefits if you can't prove you are eligible for them? It will be up to the serviceman to prove, Hate to be them.\n\n26.5 MILLION RECORDS from 1975 to present
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Best bet is to throw it away and get a new one. \n\nTry bringing it to a place like Best Buy. then maybe they can save the data.
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ooooooooo this is a toughy does your computer have a dat drive if not better start searching ebay for one thos things are rare
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it's very important that the hard drive be thoroughly "cleaned" first.  I don't mean to blow out the dust -- I mean to erase all the data, and possibly reinstall Windows if you think the computer may be useful to someone.\n\nSchools may accept them, or possibly Goodwill.  There are companies that will accept computers and related hardware and give it to charities for you.  If you let us know the general area where you live (Toledo, Phoenix, Glasgow?) someone may have more specific ideas.