Data recovery after crash disk

Hello again,
Last week I posted a question concerning the error message folowing the Hardware test.
It was bad sign and I had to take my computer to the Apple service.
The intern disk had to be replaced and they told me that they can't recover the date ( not in theyr shop)
How works the data recovery once the disk is out of the computer ? Is there necessarily a "white room" process wich is very expensive ?
Sorry for this, certainly, stupid question, but I'm not very good in computers ...
Thank you again for your answers !
Cheers
Carmen

Thank's for your answer.
I know it is more than recomended to backup constantly.
I did so until last february so all my data isn't lost, but for 4 month my external drive was turn off ( can't remember why I did this ) and just before the crash I started a backup wich didn't work ( or rather turned for at least 12 hours but , aparantly didn't save anything, if this is possible...)
The question was , is there any way to rescue something without going bankrupt

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My HP Pavilion Laptop's internal Hard Disk (Seagate) has crashed Suddenly and it is not getting detected by system.
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Can anyone suggest, how the data can be recovered from the hard disk.?
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If your hard drive is spinning then using an effective data recovery software you can do recover your data yourself. I would advice you to try Kernel for Windows Data Recovery Software to recover your data from Windows file system.

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1.
If you can boot, try using a linux liveCD like systemrescue. Use a flash drive to copy everything to the flash drive.
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If you can't boot, then you can try connecting the drive from another computer - not sure how that works, but it has
been done before.
Here's some links from my website,
http://shengchieh.50webs.com/tuxslinks.html
http://www.sysresccd.org/ (non-commercial; SystemRescueCd)
http://www.mondorescue.org/ (non-commercial; Mondo)
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk (non-commercial; TestDisk)
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec (non-commercial; PhotoRec)
https://grc.com/ (commercial; SpinRite)
These links are for linux systems, but some may be applicable for your machine.
http://www.antrix.net/journal/techtalk/reiserfs_data_recovery_howto.html (ReiserFS)
http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2008/08/recovering-deleted-files-by-inode.html (Recovering Deleted Files By Inode Number In Linux And Unix)
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/397719-repair-a-linux-file-system-and-reclaim-deleted-files (Reclaim Deleted Files and Repair Filesystems on Linux; 1/25/11)
If you need more, do a search for "data recovery".
Regardless, look at system rescue link first. And ask questions in their forum if you still have questions after reading
their docs, et.al.
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Data recovery from a disk that is unmounted

Here is my problem:
disk utility had indicated that I had a couple of bad blocks in my start up disk and recommended that it be replaced. Since I already had a second internal hard drive with plenty of room on it, I simply installed OS 10.4 on the second hard drive and designated it as the startup drive.
Then I ran maintenance on the problem drive. After spending an hour or more grinding through every sector it appeared that the drive would pass master. However for some reason it hung up, stopped making progress and disabled my computer, i.e., I could move the cursor but could not click anything or select anything. Finally my only choice was to manually shut down and restart. Restart seemed to work fine except the disk on which I was performing maintenance did not show up on the desktop.
Finally I was able to locate it using disk utility and discovered that the mount point was missing and it was not mounted. Of course this is what I should have expected since techtool pro unmounts a drive while it performs maintenance and when I had to interrupt, it did not remount.
I spent three days trying to find a way to remount it, including downloading MountMe. Strangely when I ran MountMe it recognized the drive and gave me a successful remount message, but the drive was not actually remounted according to disk utility.
I have moved the drive to a different G-4 with no more success.
my greatest problem -- I had used Backup from .Mac but apparently was not careful enough about where the backup file was located. Generally I download to my desktop and then if I want to save a download I move it to an appropriate location. Unwisely I had done the same with backup which means of course that when the old startup drive crashed it took my desktop files with it.
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So, I am looking for a reasonably priced service provider to copy my defective hard drive for me. I don't think there is any problem with the data on the drive, I just can't get it remounted.
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If you hear noises then my recommendation is to stop trying to get anything off the drive because any more attempts would do yet more damage.
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Data Recovery After Hard Drive Failure!

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MacintoshDataRecovery.com
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Heroic Efforts
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I have read good reports concerning Data Rescue although I have not used it myself.
Once you get your data back, focus on a regular (even daily) backup routine, because as you know only so well, the question is not if a drive will fail, it's when.
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A few days ago I wanted to show a friend Chakra (though I do use pure Arch myself), and after a long day of working (IT, no less), I managed to dd the iso onto my main "backup" drive! Of course, "backup" here means my collected files of the past, oh, ten years, which aren't really a backup, more like storage. What makes it worse is that I've been putting off getting Dropbox for a while, but I recognized my data was insecure and had plans to open one this week.
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Is there any way to recover the directory structure or filenames by using TestDisk to make a "dummy" NTFS filesystem (which is the format it was previously)? The way I understand it, dd should have overwritten roughly the first 707MB on the drive, byte by byte, which would eliminate all partition data soundly, but not the further up inodes and structures. Running TestDisk [analyze] doesn't yield any immediate results, but I have not done the deeper scan. The whole 160GB drive was a single NTFS partition, most of which was being used, so it would seem with part (most of) of the disk structure intact, remaking the superblock to recover the data shouldn't be terribly out of reach. I'm not sure exactly what 707MB were destroyed, but recovering the file structure and names would make my current situation much, much better!
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Last edited by ninesharp (2010-01-27 05:42:12)

Thanks for the responses!
A quick update: I was able to get all of my data (that I was concerned about) off the drive using PhotoRec, which is a wonderful, wonderful program. Though, that doesn't really solve the filesystem restore issue, so I'm going to keep updating this with my results in trying to accomplish that.
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I will try chkdsk. I have been reading about where the backup MFT is stored on NTFS, depending on what OS you formatted it under. It is possible that the backup remains somewhere out of where "Data Destroyer" touched.
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I'm very pleased to have recovered my data, thanks to PhotoRec! I highly recommend it (and/or TestDisk) to anyone attempting data recovery.
Last edited by ninesharp (2010-01-28 19:11:18)

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Instance PROD
AIX 5.2
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I have recently tried to help a friend with recovering data of his Toshiba Satelitte A100 that screen has died.
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>I thought this would be a simply task of removing the hard drive and putting it a HDD caddie and attaching it to another computer
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