Massive power surge

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RTYauch301

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ok so i was out of town my computer was off and their must have been a massive surge or something. i lost the computer tv refrigerator everything. i pulled my hard drives and installed it in an old computer nether of them will show up at all. i was wondering if anyone thinks that if replacing the bored on the bottom of the drive will do anything since the computer was off would like to retrieve some of my data if possible...
 
If you data is that important then you will need to send the drive to a professional data recovery center and have them try to recover your data. However, it will cost a few hundred dollars. A failing drive could be caused by head crash or the circuit board. Always backup your data if its that important. Drives can die at any time.
 
its not super important but id like to have it would just save me alot of time most of what i want back are my movies i still have them on DVD but it takes sometime to reencode them for mobile phone use and what not only about 300gig of movies at 1.5 gig each .. was running a raid 1 like i said computer was off neater drive will even spin up in the current condition
 
yea was just trying to get an opinion if it was worth trying... wont be crying if it doesn't work but didn't wanna waste my time if it wasn't worth a shot
 
RTYauch301 said:
i was wondering if anyone thinks that if replacing the bored on the bottom of the drive will do anything since the computer was off would like to retrieve some of my data if possible...
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That is but one of so many reasons why disk drive manufacturers provide comprehensive diagnostics. Products without diagnostics are mostly fixed by replacing good parts until something works. With information from diagnostics, only then can your question be answered.

Get diagnostics from the manufacturer web site. Or from Bootdisk.com. Better diagnostics boot without using an operating system such as Windows.

BTW, same applies to getting any computer fixed. Only the few and better manufacturers provide diagnostics. Otherwise (and again), just keep replacing good parts until something works. That is the only answer without hard facts and numbers - such as from a diagnostic.
 
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