hdd problem

user wrote:


Hmmm...

I suppose that you're not an old perv and that all these ladies knew that you were capturing her pics and that most of them were 18 at least ? Or that you can prove that you weren't able to know their age or at least that they looked over 18...

If yes, and depending on your residence country (and laws), you might try a data recovery... But: be very careful, don't you publish them if they don't agree (and of course if they're under aged)... THIS is illegal...

user wrote:

You are the only one who knows how problematic this stuff on your hdd is. If you have luck, the guy who recovers your disk make a copy of the data for his own "purposes"

Depending on the hdd error (accidentally formatted, deleted or mechanical problems) you can try some software recovery tools, so you don't have to give it away.
What did you mean with "my hdd has died"?
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yeah, you have to give more info than just "it died" if you want any real help....

user wrote:

If the hdd is not recognized by any controller, software solutions won't work of course.
If you are still unsure about the content (+/- 18) maybe you can find a computer store who does the recovering job and maybe you don't have to give your personal data to them.

(sorry, i was wrong)

Actually, hard drives are ventilated. On some brands you can actually see a small hole in the cover, with a notation not to cover it. A hard drive has to have air pressure inside to work properly - the read head requires it. This is also why there is usually a specification that hard drives have to be used under somewhere around 10,000 feet, because the air gets too thin above that elevation for the drive to run properly.

The best reasons for not opening a hard drive at home are dust and the fact that there's really nothing the average person can do to fix a hard drive. The drives are manufactured in "clean rooms," which are carefully controlled environments. The air is carefully filtered to remove dust and microbes and the workers cover their bodies completely with suits, gloves and masks. This prevents anything from getting into the hard drives as they're being assembled. Inside a drive, the magnetic read/write head hovers fractions of a millimeter above the surface of the rotating data platters. A single speck of dust would cause the head to crash into the platters, destroying the data.

user wrote:

If you feel confident that you will not be incriminated because of the contents of the HDD, go for it. Do not be surprised if they copy your files. Professional ethics should tell these people not to mess with you files but you can never tell what will happen once the HDD is under their custody. No matter what, if you find your files being published somewhere, you should know who did it, but of course they will not publish your files.

Most likely you just need to restore the partition table. It is always saved in several backups on the disk. It has happened for me several times but restoring it was never a problem. I would suggest you you a recover program. They can inspect your disk and find the backups of the partition table. One such thing is partition table. You can do this without changing anything. Just watching the old data in the backup will give you peace of mind. Testdisk works well in Ubuntu.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=387922

I don't use Windows or Mac, but I'm sure they have free alternatives. Just google it.



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Loui375

This is a little late but maybe you can still use it. Try putting the hard drive in the freezer for about 24 hours. Put the hard drive in a ziplock bag of some type first though. This is a technique that works about 20% of the time. I have it work for me once in about 10 tries but it is worth a try. If that fails, buy another hard drive and slave the other drive. There are several programs on the market that should help you recover some data, although probably not all. And it is entirely possible that the software won't help you recover any. Longshots but if the data is "valuable" to you, then probably worth it. To get the data restored on a 100gig drive by a professional company will cost you about $700-$1000. I had to get data restored to a drive from my place of employment. It was over $3000 (worth it to us) and it was an old 40 gig hard drive but it had all of our past personnel data on it. And it wasn't backed up. \
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I lost a 500GB SATA drive recently, so I put it in a $25 Ritmo USB/SATA housing. To my delight I found I was able to copy everything across to a new 1TB internal drive. So I lost no data and I got a working 500GB external drive.

But this solution had an even bigger bonus for me. The Ritmo drive housing happens to use the same power adapter as Aironet wireless bridges (circa 2001), of which I have two, no point in only having one.

One of the power adapters was dead, the other had a faulty connector. I've been looking for new power adapters for almost 2 years! So I got two more disk housings; now I have two working wireless bridges (replacement value ~USD$3000), that with the antennae I have can easily bridge 8-10Km and I have 2 spare USB/SATA disk housings, but alas no steak knives

That's serendipity - who-ever.