Help on Burn HDD.

[Silenus]

Hi everybody.

Seems I have a really bad luck this days.

As some members already know, I sold my rig some months ago, what I did was kept my hard disk and gave a new one to the buyer.

In that hard disk there is literally my life, my family photos, important documents, my music, anime, movies, games, all.

That was my main HDD and the only one I did not sell because of that.

It is a Western digital Caviar SE wd2500js 250GB SATA.

Results that the other day, a co worker saw my collection of hip hop music and asked me to lend it to him.

I refused 'cause that drive is really important, he was begging for the drive, finally I accepted, and like a movie as soon as he plugged it to a external usb cable he burned the HDD.

In the back plate it smells like it's burned.

Is there any hope for me, that data is really important to me?

[Xtreme2damax]

Originally Posted by Silenus

Hi everybody.

Seems I have a really bad luck this days.

As some members already know, I sold my rig some months ago, what I did was kept my hard disk and gave a new one to the buyer.

In that hard disk there is literally my life, my family photos, important documents, my music, anime, movies, games, all.

That was my main HDD and the only one I did not sell because of that.

It is a Western digital Caviar SE wd2500js 250GB SATA.

Results that the other day, a co worker saw my collection of hip hop music and asked me to lend it to him.

I refused 'cause that drive is really important, he was begging for the drive, finally I accepted, and like a movie as soon as he plugged it to a external usb cable he burned the HDD.

In the back plate it smells like it's burned.

Is there any hope for me, that data is really important to me?

I know how you feel, I had a HDD which shorted out when I tried to transfer components from an old PC into a new case. I hooked something up wrong and it happened to short out my drive with all my archived programs, downloaded files, gamesaves etc....

I lost everything and had to redownload what I could remember I had on it, my gamesaves were kuput, I was really pizzored since I had backed up my gamesaves of games I got really far in.

You might be able to save your data if damage hasn't extended beyond the mainboard of the hardrive itself and you know what you are doing by finding someone with an old hard drive exactly like yours, carefully removing the mainboard of of the other one and replacing the mainboard on yours.

If you can't do this, the other choice is handing it to some forensics company or someone who has the tools who can perform a backup of your hdd's contents which cost's mega money to do.

I'm afraid those may be your only two choices. I'm still awaiting to find someone or some old machine which has a hard drive like mine to salvage and replace the mainboard on mine so I can retrieve all of my archived data from it.

[Silenus]

Thanks.

That's what some friends told me.
That I had to replace it with a board exactly like mine.

It will not be easy to find it, I think.

[Xtreme2damax]

Originally Posted by Silenus

Thanks.

That's what some friends told me.
That I had to replace it with a board exactly like mine.

It will not be easy to find it, I think.

Just a forewarning though, I heard from somewheres that even if you find another hard drive exactly like it with a good mainboard, it may not work. Something to do with the Cylinders or Heads and the way the data was written may differ. However I don't exactly remember exactly why it might work.

If you can find another hard drive exactly like it (Same make and model) definitely go for it if it means you can save your important data.