Re: FN-FORUM: Recovering data from a WinXP laptop HDD

date posted 8th January 2007 13:33


On 8 Jan 2007, at 14:01, David Nye wrote:

> I am trying to recover some data from a WinXP laptop HDD. I do not =20
> have a working compatible laptop to stick it in, so I got hold of a =20=

> USB IDE adaptor. When connected the hard drive seems to spin up =20
> fine, and the USB device is detected OK, but the host Windows =20
> system does not seem to be able "read" it; at this point it sounds =20
> like the drive keeps "resetting".

When you say resetting, does this mean you hear it kick out a really =20
nasty clicking noise when you try to pull data from the disk ?

If so this is bad news; that could point to a physical problem with =20
the disk. Everything with moving parts has a tendency to fail one =20
day - hence why a =A35 fan dying can bust over a =A3200 motherboard/cpu =
..

You did take backups, yes ? ;-)

-a

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Regards, Andy Davidson
Consultant Systems and Network Engineer, Devonshire IT Limited
http://www.devonshire.it/ - 0844 704 704 7 - Sheffield, UK