The hard drive in my eMachines EM250 died over a year ago. I was getting this message below when attempting to boot Windows:
A new hard drive solved the problem. On the broken hard drive i had thousands of photos and videos, taken at automotive events around the UK. I lost them all when the drive went wrong.
Determinded to retrieve my content off the failed hard drive, i opened it up and inspected the internals. Everything looked fine, but i did find a thin plastic mesh material resting on the surface of the disc; around 0.5cm x 2cm in size. I removed it, but i cannot try the hard drive again in the computer because i intentionally damaged the circuit on the base so that the drive wouldn't work again. I did this because i was going to throw it away, and i wanted to be sure my data was secure before chucking it. (Stupid idea, i know!)
The internals of the hard drive look very easy to dismantle, everything just unscrews. To remove the disc it would be easy. I thought that if i bought a cheap 40GB SATA 2.5" drive off Ebay (Less than £10), took out the disc and replaced it with mine, it might work, allowing me to get my data back?
Hopefully someone with a bit more knowledge on the subject could tell me if this would work. I don't know anything about hard drives.
Thanks!
A new hard drive solved the problem. On the broken hard drive i had thousands of photos and videos, taken at automotive events around the UK. I lost them all when the drive went wrong.
Determinded to retrieve my content off the failed hard drive, i opened it up and inspected the internals. Everything looked fine, but i did find a thin plastic mesh material resting on the surface of the disc; around 0.5cm x 2cm in size. I removed it, but i cannot try the hard drive again in the computer because i intentionally damaged the circuit on the base so that the drive wouldn't work again. I did this because i was going to throw it away, and i wanted to be sure my data was secure before chucking it. (Stupid idea, i know!)
The internals of the hard drive look very easy to dismantle, everything just unscrews. To remove the disc it would be easy. I thought that if i bought a cheap 40GB SATA 2.5" drive off Ebay (Less than £10), took out the disc and replaced it with mine, it might work, allowing me to get my data back?
Hopefully someone with a bit more knowledge on the subject could tell me if this would work. I don't know anything about hard drives.
Thanks!
have done similar to recover data, really should be done in a Clean Room (sealed) but have been able to recover most data on a couple of occasions
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