"kony" wrote:
>On 2 Sep 2005 01:40:19 -0400, Captin
><DoNotEmail@HardwareForumz.com> wrote:
>
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>> You said what I was thinking about data recovery issues. It’s no
>>time to play around if a persons not capable basicly.The beauty of
>>forums is no matter how weird the challenge, theres usually
>someone
>>that can say
>>"I’ve been there and done that and this is how I did it"
>
>That would be oversimplified, not the ideal it seems on the
>surface because "usually" when there is a data recovery
>need, all that can be determined beforehand is that the data
>isn’t accessible in the normal way it used to be, but WHY it
>isn’t, can vary, and so can the necessary steps to regain
>that access.
>
>Different problems can have the same result, and using a
>tool to combat the result instead of the problem isn’t
>always effective. If someone wrote that they deleted a file
>or was infected by a certain virus, it might be clearer what
>needs to be done. If they wrote that the drive simply
>doesn’t work right and they need the data, the time and
>tools to do it will be a fair expense regardless of whether
>that data is recoverable or not. Most often in this groups
>we get posts about drives failing, not some user mistake,
>and there is no data recovery software alone that makes a
>damaged drive whole again.
How much data recovery did you say you have done exactly?(JOKIN)
I’d like to step back to what many refer too as "general hard drive
failure"

There are two sub categories if you like for general hard drive
failure ..

One is either no power or the short circuiting of power.
Call me slow but I usually check this out first because without it
even my brother who is a software junky is going nowhere if the drive
is installed inside a PC without it.I would say that almost 50% of
general failures belong here and the easy answer is to replace the
controller board even if it is tempory to regain your data.
It was posted that it is "Monkeys Work" to replace a board and I
couldn’t have said it better myself and don’t see why people would
suggest we need to pay $50 an hour to have that done if the average
Joe can jump on a forum, get a few tips which make it easy for him.
Maybe I will start a thread about controller boards?

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