Data Recovery from Seagate HDD

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Jaunty Edward wrote:
>
> HI,
> I have a 40 GB seagate hdd. few days back while It fell from my hands
> and got on the floor with one of its corners ( where we put the power
> cord ). Now the bios does not detect it. I have some of the most
> infortant work of mine that can not get me any money but is very imp
> to me.
> Is there any hope, I have download a lot many soft but I dont know if
> any soft can do anything untill the Bios is ready to detect it.
> can anybody guide me to a window software that can recover data even
> if the bios is not detecting the HDD.
>
> Regards
> Jaunty Edward


Hello, Jaunty:

Your hard drive has "fallen," in more ways than one. If it's badly
damaged, physically (as I strongly suspect it is), no software, alone,
can retrieve its data.

There are commercial data-recovery services, available, that employ a
combination of hardware/software techniques. Unfortunately, they tend to
be very expensive.

In the future, always back up your data -- and while you're at it, stop
being such a butterfingers, too. :-D

Good luck!


Cordially,
John Turco <jtur@concentric.net>