My Toshbia Harddrive died. How can I get the data back?

I use clonezilla Clonezilla to clone my drives to backups. Takes about an hour to do 320gigs.

Go to toshiba dot com, plug in the serial # for the laptop and if found you can purchase backup CD/DVD of the laptop. I repaired a toshiba laptop for a friend using this method and was able to restore the laptop to factory new.

RATEDRKO said:

My toshiba harddrive died after a few months of receiving it. I got it for Christmas last year. The original harddrive died in June and was replaced with a new one within two weeks. In September the new harddrive crashed and died. I took it to a local shop to get the data, but they were unable to get the data.

I really need this data back. It has a lot of important files. What can I do to get the data?

Several things:
1. As pointed out, sending the hdd off to a company which provides the data recovery service is expensive. To pay $1000 and more is to be expected.


2. Try this: but I make no guarantees-- put the hdd into a ziplock bag. Put into the refrigerator. Leave there for at least 8 hours (some say to put into the freezer compartment). Remove and immediately connect and try to use. If it works, wonderful. If it doesn't nothing lost except for a little time.

3. Use the best backup and restore software for Windows 7, namely, Win 7 Backup and Restore. Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup

4. Since no doubt, you will have questions on other matters at some point in time, please complete your system specs so that we can better help you.



HOW TO FILL OUT YOUR SYSTEM SPECS


In the line at the top of www.SevenForums.com you will see UserCP.
That is an abbreviation for User Control Panel.
Click on UserCP.
In the left-hand column, under Your Profile you will see Edit System Spec.
Click on Edit System Spec
You can copy and paste from the output of Speccy, Speccy - System Information - Free Download to fill out much of the info. Be sure to use the Other Info section of your System Specs for such info as your optical drive, your wireless adapter, your speakers, etc.

ukgovsucks said:

This may sound daft, but I had a 1Tb Samsung SATA Drive go a knacker last year and I too had some data that I did not back up. (Learnt my lesson since! lol). However what I did was remove the board from underneath another hard drive of the same make/model/size and temporarily swapped it with the knackered drives board. Hooked everything up, and ta daaa, it worked! Got all my data off it then put the board back to the original drive.

Might be worth a go if you are really that desperate. You could see if you can get a faulty drive off ebay for dirt cheap and take a gamble that their drive don't have the same fault? I'm not guaranteeing anything here, but it worked for me!

Good idea. But does this control board actually affect the disk spinning up?
Is the Fix-it man giving the OP the correct info when he says the disk won't spin up - Can you actually hear the disk spinning?

LiquidSnak said:

Well, a bad board could not spin the disk up. Again, this is an inexpensive suggestion that might have the solution to your problem.

I would try:

• Booting from CD and attempting to pull your info.
• Swapping the boards if you feel you can
• Data recovery.

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