Anyone locally do hard drive repair?

[Birdie2000]

Have a hard drive that has important info on it that I need recovered. It died while in use, couldn't find the disk to boot, sat for a day, and the computer booted up again but I couldn't backup the data quick enough before dying again. No clicking, etc. and the freezer trick didn't do anything. The drive won't even try to spin up so I'm guessing the PCB might be the culprit and a replacement might get it running long enough to grab the data.

I've seen repair services for this for $50-100 where you don't pay if it doesn't work, however they require shipping and this is time sensitive. I could do this myself if I could find a board locally which I'm sure is unlikely. Anyone do this or know someone who does?

Drive is a 250gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS Firmware 3.AAF Date Code 09063 Site Code SU

 

[YLWFVR]

Get sata to usb cable and connect it to another PC. See if u can access it as an external drive.

 

[Birdie2000]

I already have, drive won't even spin up. The drive is definitely malfunctioning.

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[YLWFVR]

I already have, drive won't even spin up. The drive is definitely malfunctioning.

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That sucks. Try Lombardo computer services in Rochester. They might be able to help

 

[Tin]

You could try running a live Linux distro from a USB key such as Clonezilla to see if it will recognize the drive. That way, you can copy the partition to another drive.

http://clonezilla.org/

 

[Birdie2000]

I'm crossing my fingers but I may have lucked out. It's looking like my USB->SATA dock managed to take a shit too and I got the drive to spin up for a short while with a test power supply. Hoping with a new dock I'll be in the clear long enough to get the vital data off of it.

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[Tin]

Next project, building or buying a NAS I presume? :lol:

 

[Birdie2000]

Next project, building or buying a NAS I presume? :lol:

Haha this isn't my computer, already have that stuff . That said a cloud backup service is in their immediate future.

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[86iroc305]

i've used this place for work before at middlebelt and 5 mile. it starts to get expensive depending how deep they have to go. if you fairly tech savy and have another hd of same make alot of times you can swap the board easily to see if you can get it to spin up that way worth a shot. if not check this place out http://www.ineeditsupport.com/index.html#services

 

[Birdie2000]

Thanks, that place is close!

Fortunately I was able to get the hard drive working in a new enclosure long enough to recover most of the data so I'm good to go now! Thanks for the help everyone.

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[Hugger Z]

That sucks. Try Lombardo computer services in Rochester. They might be able to help

Yup, I used them when my slave drive crapped out. They pulled my back-up pics, etc off for me and saved my data.

Thanks, that place is close!

Fortunately I was able to get the hard drive working in a new enclosure long enough to recover most of the data so I'm good to go now! Thanks for the help everyone.

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Glad to hear you got what you needed. That is great!