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Thread Author: Dave_ Replies: 16

 Recovering data from broken hard drive - Dave_
I'm hoping some of the tech people on here may be able to help.

My friend has got an external hard drive which decided last week to go all dead on him. It's a Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200AAJS 320GB model. He's bought an identical unit as a replacement and as he works in software has asked a couple of more practical people to have a look. Despite swapping simple parts over the corrupt drive still only "clicks" and won't spin up.

Is there anything else he can do, or can you recommend anywhere that can magic it all better for him? All the photos and videos of his 18 month old son are on there, not to mention a fairly extensive iTunes library.
 Messages Author Date
 Recovering data from broken hard drive new Dave_ 21 Apr 10 08:15
 Recovering data from broken hard drive new Tooslow 21 Apr 10 08:55
 Recovering data from broken hard drive new car4play 21 Apr 10 09:11
 Recovering data from broken hard drive new smokie 21 Apr 10 09:30
 Recovering data from broken hard drive new car4play 21 Apr 10 09:56
 Recovering data from broken hard drive new Zero 21 Apr 10 10:02
 Recovering data from broken hard drive new Crankcase 21 Apr 10 10:21
 Recovering data from broken hard dri.. new Iffy 21 Apr 10 10:28
 Recovering data from broken hard dri.. new rtj70 21 Apr 10 10:29
 Recovering data from broken hard dr.. new smokie 21 Apr 10 10:34
 Recovering data from broken hard d.. new rtj70 21 Apr 10 10:41
 Recovering data from broken hard drive new Victorbox 21 Apr 10 17:32
 Recovering data from broken hard drive new Soupytwist 22 Apr 10 13:09
 Recovering data from broken hard drive new Dave_ 24 Apr 10 18:35
 Recovering data from broken hard drive new RattleandSmoke 24 Apr 10 18:49
 Recovering data from broken hard drive new Bellboy 24 Apr 10 20:07
 Recovering data from broken hard dri.. new rtj70 24 Apr 10 20:29
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