HDD Crashed !!! Help !!!

[nt259]

My notebook, IBM Thinkpad 600, has HDD problem at such Win NT 4 can't boot up.
I think the HDD is faulty as it's giving out some sound.

I have important data in the notebook, how can I recover my data ?
If the HDD is really dead, is there any other way to get my data back
Pls advise
James

[Bovon]

James, I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but if the hard drive has in fact gone belly up, it would cost you an arm and a leg to recover your data.

There are services that do this, but only the US Government can afford the service.

I 'think' they dissamble the drive, put the platter in another drive assembly, and retrieve the data that way...that is if the drive is truly dead. If the drive electronics is the problem, it can possibly be recovered at a simular place of business...still costly.

Thats why we do backups of our important stuff. I have 4 backups of mine, backup computer, laptop, zip disks, backup hard drive.

Sorry for your loss.

[Ben_F]

well i got plenty of hard drive corruptions with win98, that was win98 though....nothing since i installed windows 2000. try a boot disk with FDisk on it. if you dont know what that is, then just make a windows bootdisk from somebody else's computer. 98 version always worked for me. it'll boot up and then you can check to see if you files are still there. i dont know how a labtop would work, but i just took my drive out when i couldnt get it to boot and put it in another computer as a slave drive, copied the important files, reformatted it, then copied them back, and then installed windows once it was back in the computer. sometimes reformatting was the only way to fix it....probably something physically wrong with my drive, but it's working fine for now. i guess if your files are still there and Fdisk won't work, you could buy a program like Norton Utilities

[bdunn]

Hi I've done some data recovery and it can be tedios. You might try using a program called LOST & FOUND. It has helped me twice with drives thought to be gone.

[bdunn]

Hi I've done some data recovery and it can be tedios. You might try using a program called LOST & FOUND. It has helped me twice with drives thought to be gone.

[nt259]

Hi
Where can I have this called LOST & FOUND?
James