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Dead External Hard Drive... anyone know a reliable data recovery service

Mythos

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Connect it to a Linux system,...or boot to a Ubuntu Live boot disk...,
Then run " testdisk" as root from command line.
It will recover partitions and analyse disk to recover files.
 

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I used Memofix a couple years back and they were terrific. They will give you a rough diagnosis upfront and a quote. Recovered everything and were very professional. It's not a cheap service though, I think I paid around $800. I see places all over now so maybe the price has come down.

https://www.memofix.com/
 

SomeKind

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For anyone coming to this thread later. It is often the case that you can bring the drive back up and running by running a program called SpinRite (https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm). There are few cases where a drive is too far gone to bring back to life. But if it is the first time it failed, you can usually bring back long enough to transfer the data to another drive. It only costs $90 USD in comparison to the recovery companies. Hope this helps whoever in the future.
 

SomeKind

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Just gotta be careful if there's mechanical damage. Trying to extract the data can make it worse.
True. But mechanical damage is very unlikely if the drive was just sitting in a computer. You would have to physically damage the drive (like from drops on the floor or hitting it with a hammer) to get mechanical damage.

I have used this program and heard of a lot of other people who have and it very often will get the drive back up and running. Usually the damage is bad sectors on the drive that the processor can't correct for, this program forces the drive to read or reconstruct the data if it is at all possible. After you run it, even if it wasn't 100% successful in recovering the bad areas of the drive, you may still be able to boot it and get the data off. I recommend before you spend hundreds of dollars on data recovery services that you try it. At a very minimum it is a good maintenance program you can run regularly (once a month) on your drives to keep them healthy and prevent this kind of problem in the future.
 

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Years ago I was in the industry and my suggestions may not work with newer drives.
Last resort, we actually did hit it with a hammer. Sometimes it worked again long enough to backup.
Another technique was to freeze it first, although this never worked well for me.

I lost everything in a different way. Was migrating to another computer, put everything on an external to transport, gave it a super password, forgot the password.
Had already deleted the original drive, which was failing.

That was 3-4 years ago. 6 months ago I had a break-in and lost everything again.
 
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