I'm just wondering how one would go about recovering files from a dead hard drive.
Essentially what happened was my sister's hard drive died in her laptop. I asked her if she ever kept her laptop on her bed, and well, it was as I expected. The fan and vents were on the bottom of the laptop so on her bed it would have blocked off all airflow.
Anyway, now the HDD is not even being detected in the laptop. When I plug it into my desktop it fails to initialize in the disk manager due to an "I/O error."
The only way I can see her getting the files off it is by removing the physical platter and putting it in a working hard drive. However, I don't have the tools or the patience to do such a thing.
I'm just wondering if there's anything else I can try, or if anyone can tell me how much this is going to cost her to recover the files. I remember one of my professors lost a hard drive like this and it cost him about 300$ to recover the files. My sister doesn't have any important school documents like that, just random pictures. Personally I think this should be a lesson to her and anyone else who is dumb enough to leave a laptop running on a bed constantly.
Essentially what happened was my sister's hard drive died in her laptop. I asked her if she ever kept her laptop on her bed, and well, it was as I expected. The fan and vents were on the bottom of the laptop so on her bed it would have blocked off all airflow.
Anyway, now the HDD is not even being detected in the laptop. When I plug it into my desktop it fails to initialize in the disk manager due to an "I/O error."
The only way I can see her getting the files off it is by removing the physical platter and putting it in a working hard drive. However, I don't have the tools or the patience to do such a thing.
I'm just wondering if there's anything else I can try, or if anyone can tell me how much this is going to cost her to recover the files. I remember one of my professors lost a hard drive like this and it cost him about 300$ to recover the files. My sister doesn't have any important school documents like that, just random pictures. Personally I think this should be a lesson to her and anyone else who is dumb enough to leave a laptop running on a bed constantly.
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