One of my friends had her hard drive die on her. She needs to recover the data (at least a few items, she apparently had passwords stored on it and she doesn't remember the passwords so she needs the file/s). Can you help?
I can't access the comment. I will try to recover what I can. Where and when would the hard drive be ready for access? You could bring it into the 127 lab at 12:30 or so. I'd love to have something other than dependancy lookups to do in that class, and it is pretty easy to get to. ;)
Cool, you can do it? I will have to get it from her sometime, so it may be a few days.
I will let her know about this.
Do you have any extra hard drives? I think I have a 40 gig, but if you have anything bigger they may prefer it. They are both on disability, but she would make monthly payments if you wanted to sell her one.
I'll check first though and see if she even needs something bigger than 40. And, I'll get that HD from her.
I have a 20 GB and an 8.4 GB, but that's about it for hard drives. Does she have any recovery disks? That would help in the rebuild process after I get the data off of her hard drive. If it doesn't "spin-up" at all, then it's truely dead. But I have a couple techniques to make it run if it doesn't. It would be nice to have the whole box if that is possible, but if it is just the hard drive then that is fine as well. Hope to see you soon and get this job completed in a minimal amount of time. ^_^
I hav good news and bad news. The good news is that I have your computer up and running with the hard drive(40GB) Rachel gave me. The bad news is that the hard drive was/"is still" in fact dead. I plugged it into a couple of other computers besides the one I was using and all of them could not recognize the hard drive's contents at all. I am imagining that it could be readable if you had large amounts of money for a hard drive reconstructor. I have no connections with anyone that has this sort of device. Bottom-line: Your old hard drive is dead, but your computer is running great.
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One of my friends had her hard drive die on her. She needs to recover the data (at least a few items, she apparently had passwords stored on it and she doesn't remember the passwords so she needs the file/s). Can you help?
Here's her comment explaining it to me:
http://the-questess.livejournal.com/894353.html?thread=1826193#t1826193
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OK, now you can. :-)
Cool, you can do it? I will have to get it from her sometime, so it may be a few days.
I will let her know about this.
Do you have any extra hard drives? I think I have a 40 gig, but if you have anything bigger they may prefer it. They are both on disability, but she would make monthly payments if you wanted to sell her one.
I'll check first though and see if she even needs something bigger than 40. And, I'll get that HD from her.
Thanks!
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Does she have any recovery disks? That would help in the rebuild process after I get the data off of her hard drive. If it doesn't "spin-up" at all, then it's truely dead. But I have a couple techniques to make it run if it doesn't.
It would be nice to have the whole box if that is possible, but if it is just the hard drive then that is fine as well.
Hope to see you soon and get this job completed in a minimal amount of time. ^_^
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Bottom-line: Your old hard drive is dead, but your computer is running great.
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