download the new version for apple Magic Data Recovery Pack 4.6

Use this with caution as condensation can make things worse.This is actually a horrid suggestion.

It might come back alive just long enough to recover some things. It's been a good investment for me and has paid for itself many times over.Ĭould try putting the HD in the freezer for a few hours or over night. If you're willing to spend some money you can get their boot disk with all their tools here: Opens a new window. I've had the best success rate (around 80%) using Boot Disk (not free, sorry) and specifically their file recovery application. I've not had much luck with free recovery tools though. I have one of those USB adapters and for me it's worked very well for this exact situation. Just mount that sucker in Windows 7 get in and get out. I wouldn't mess with it at the BIOS level. If not for this job, they are great to have around as a general IT tool. It might ask to run a chkdsk (In which I would say no) and if you cannot recover your files, then move on to letting Windows fix the drive. Personally, I would mount it to the Windows 7 machine with a USB adapter and let Windows discover it as an external HD. I would also check your BIOS settings to make sure you have enabled both SATA and IDE and that they are properly configured. Look at the SMART attributes for re-allocated, pending, and uncorrectable sectors, elevated numbers for those attributes are a pretty sure sign of internal damage.ĭoes it spin and continue to spin? Or does it quit spinning at some point? Just be aware that if there is internal damage (which it sounds is pretty likely) you may be damaging the drive by powering it up, making it much more expensive or even impossible for a data recovery specialist to recover it. After imaging, you may also need to repair the partition table(s), check out TestDisk Opens a new window for this.

You will need an empty drive of equal or larger size to write the image to. If the customer is OK with MUCH lower chance of success, then you can DIY with ddrescue Opens a new window, either install it on the Linux flavor of your choice or download the Ubuntu Rescue Remix Opens a new window live-cd. If the files are really important important and your customer is willing to drop some cash to get them back then stop messing with the drive(you may be internally damaging it further) and call a data recovery shop such as Gillware Opens a new window or DataSavers Opens a new window, both of whom I've used and had good results with.

Download the new version for apple Magic Data Recovery Pack 4.6