Help me….my hard disk is damaged!!!

[yana4520]

Hi everyone , I am employed as a manager in a firm. I have a problem that I had like to talk about. My system was working fine the other day, but while copying a file by nero….the system hanged and I had to restart it. But I got a disk boot failure error. Then , I tried to run a windows xp installation CD, but that is also showing some error message during installation and the installation fails.I did check the bios settings and the disk fails to show…and had it checked on another system also…but bios cannot detect the hard disk.I think the disk is damaged or something like that.The disk has important data from my company’s point of view…..that I need to recover.

Please let me know if there are any ways to get my data back from this disk!!!!

[Boris]

You could try this ?

http://www.recuva.com/

........ but if the H/D is not detected in another machine ?

If the data on it is that business-critical, then you should have had an automatic back-up system in place.

[AlanHo]

If you google for Hard Drive Recovery you will find a large number of companies who can retrieve data from a failed hard drive. It is not cheap - a Friend with your problem spent £350 getting his data back - but he considered it worth it for his business.

The lesson is to have a proper back-up facility like an external hard drive and Acronis True Image installed - absolutely vital if you have critical information.

You are lucky it is a business machine because the cost can be put down as a legitimate business expense - as can buying the necessary facilities to set up a proper back-up regime to protect your valuable data.

[sam8540]

I think that your disk is probably damaged …cannot guess any other reason for failure.There may be some problem in the controllers or can be another thing.The best way is to get a professional team that can recover data from damaged drives. They can be your best resort as they have tools and ways to get the things done.

All the best to you.