[ale] Hard Drive recovery of data help please

[dev null zero two]

first, take the drive out of the external enclosure and connect it directly
via IDE or SATA, the USB adapters in those drives are shitty $0.30 Chinese
parts that can't handle any sort of drive issues, so hooking it up directly
resolves a lot of issues.

if you can see the drive in your computer's BIOS, check to make sure the
size is reported correctly, and if it is, run ddrescue immediately and
image the drive. from there use whatever tool you want to mount/extract the
data.

if that doesn't work, I would definitely recommend myharddrivedied.com in
Woodstock, Scott is awesome.

Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation.
On Apr 20, 2014 9:59 AM, "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <savithari at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank You.  I have a few questions please.
>
> It is an external drive.  Are you saying, I should open the drive and then
> swap the board inside that ?
>
> Are there any folks in the Atl area that can recover data for me at a
> reasonable price ?
>
> -Narahari
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Dustin Strickland <
> dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you have another identical drive, try swapping out the logic board.
>>
>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 21:22:13 -0400
>> "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <savithari at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Friends:
>> >
>> > I have an USB drive (Maxtor external 250GB).  It worked well and
>> > since this noon it is not responding on either on my Mac or PC.  When
>> > I connect it does NOT get recoginized.  Not sure why and I am really
>> > concerned.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions including data recovery commercially I would like to
>> > take your suggestions/help.  It would be really helpful if I can get
>> > good prices and reliable.  I have pictures and important stuff on
>> > it.  So please help out.
>> >
>> > -N
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