Heloo one all, my first post here, I was about to purcahse a pack deal of Piriform products, when I started looking in to Recuva, it was stated that if HHD went down it could recover files from said HHD. The HHD i'm talking of is for Video storage, I have it disconnected, but let me go back a bit, I called WD and I still can get an RMA, in the mean time I was directed to a page of theirs that lists many data recovery companies. I was also old that one of them is the top company that WD uses and they give discounts to those who own WD HHD's I called them, they sent me a shipping label and I sent it out to them, at no cost to me and as it was stated to me on the phone, they opened the HHD in a clean room and saw that there was what can be called dust due to drivve head hitting the platters, they stated that no data could be recovered and shipped it back to me.
Is there any chance that I could have a bit of luck to recover data from this HHD "all HD video files"
I have seen a few videos on you tube where the drive heads were replaced?
There were no bumps or anything close to move the HHD while running.
you have a few things working against you here, sadly.
firstly: the dreaded click-of-death, never a good sign
next: a professional data recovery company has determined that they can't recover any data. you'd have to hope that if they can't, nobody can.
then: if the heads have truly hit the platter, as stated, particles of head and platter material get thrown out and dust (of any nature) is a hard drives biggest enemy (right behind excessive vibrations).
a head strike is a catastrophic failure.
your situation is made worse by the type of files stored on the drive.
videos take up many MiBs or GiBs which require multiple sectors on the drive, in other words, your data is much more likely to be effected by the damaged surface.
you have a few things working against you here, sadly.
firstly: the dreaded click-of-death, never a good sign
next: a professional data recovery company has determined that they can't recover any data. you'd have to hope that if they can't, nobody can.
then: if the heads have truly hit the platter, as stated, particles of head and platter material get thrown out and dust (of any nature) is a hard drives biggest enemy (right behind excessive vibrations).
a head strike is a catastrophic failure.
your situation is made worse by the type of files stored on the drive.
videos take up many MiBs or GiBs which require multiple sectors on the drive, in other words, your data is much more likely to be effected by the damaged surface.
golden PC rule: backup now, backup often.
Yeah Sadly, I'm afraid you sir are correct, I was hoping for a mirical maybe. Unlit I can get a nas set up, I will have to pay for company to do back ups. Thank you for the reply.