- Dec 3, 2013
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Hello,
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I gave it to a friend who's fairly good with PC's, and he hooked it up to desktop via SATA cable, but when booting, it is neither recognized in the BIOS, nor in Windows nor in Linux.
I have no idea what caused it, nor do I have a lot of knowledge about PC's. I do know, that it doesn't make a ticking noise, so that should be a relatively good sign; I also believe it does still spin when connected.
And being the idiot I was, I haven't made any backups yet... Now the data is not really that precious, it's only a lot of pictures which I'd like to have back.
Is there a way to get the data back, possibly without paying hundreds of euro's (I'm from Netherlands) for a professional company?
Thanks in advance.
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I have a laptop where a WD5000bevt-22a0rt0 HDD (500 GB) was used, and some time ago, I had changed a setting, and had to reboot in order for it to work. So I did, and then the laptop went nuts: it showed me the logo of the brand of my laptop, went booting for 8 seconds (no F2 option yet), then died, and restarted. Repeat until infinity.
So I brought it to my local PC-store to repair, and they put in a new harddrive, and gave me back the broken one.
So I brought it to my local PC-store to repair, and they put in a new harddrive, and gave me back the broken one.
I have no idea what caused it, nor do I have a lot of knowledge about PC's. I do know, that it doesn't make a ticking noise, so that should be a relatively good sign; I also believe it does still spin when connected.
And being the idiot I was, I haven't made any backups yet... Now the data is not really that precious, it's only a lot of pictures which I'd like to have back.
Is there a way to get the data back, possibly without paying hundreds of euro's (I'm from Netherlands) for a professional company?
Thanks in advance.
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