Hard Drive question (Opinions wanted)

This is something that I have never done before, so before I wasted my time, I wanted to see if anyone else has. I have a user here at work, whos computer Hard drive crashed. I belived that the physical drive is on, but the controller is bad(Power surge). I have an Identical drive, and thought maybe I could just swap out the controller, and at least be able to get some of the data that he wants off of it. Has anyone ever done this? What do you think my chances are? I know for a fact that this cheap company won’t be calling On-Track Data recovery.

I had a hard drive crash to a point I couldn’t boot up the computer. I took it to a small local computer store and they were able to pull all of the data off of it for under $70, and put it on a CD for me. They said a data recovery place would be a lot more expensive. They somehow connected it to another drive and ran it from that drive. Maybe swapping the controller is essentially what they did? I don’t know, but it worked and we recovered everything we needed. Just a thought. Good luck.

PM Sent

You just might want to mount it in your computer as a second non boot drive to see if it works. If it does you could make a CD of it or store it some where else for the time being.
WarrenMN

What I normally tried first is to set up the bad drive on another machine as a slave drive, boot up the box and try to get the info off that way. If the drive is to far gone to do that, then its time to bring it to a recovery place for them to work their magic.

Jami