I have an IBM "Desk Star" 20g hardrive.
It died.
My tech has looked at it and the verdict is that the problem lay in the actual casing of the drive. His system (or mine)does not recognise it. He tells me that it is a fault within the hardware itself.
I want the data contained on this hardware.
IMB will honour their warranty and replace the drive. However,IBM do not do data recovery. They do not correct the fault they merely replace.
Maybe someone can suggest a solution to my dillemna?
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Jump to PostHmm, this is a tough one. (Unfortunately, I've lost my share of data in similar ways and have never been able to recover any of it)
Your computer doesn't detect the drive at all no matter what you do? (In other words there aren't just bad sectors on the …
Jump to PostWell, there are answers, depending on how much you want to pay. I've seen services that will recover dead drives.
Check around on google. Some keywords, hard drive recovery service.
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