25 Responses to “Laptop Hard Drive Data Recovery”

1. SaiE8
   February 10th, 2010 @ 6:53 pm

   You have a SATA hard drive the one in the video is a IDE hard drive

2. basicdeanuk
   February 10th, 2010 @ 7:04 pm

   i have a different hard disc to the one shown it doesnt have pins more like slots (male)

3. shyboyangelus
   February 10th, 2010 @ 7:39 pm

   my hdd crashed, i very carefully swapped the discs with a good but blank hdd without toching the disks, they were both completely useless after and the laptop would not even recognise either of them !!!!!!!!

4. twowinds
   February 10th, 2010 @ 8:22 pm

   Thanks, that was pretty straight forward info.

5. jcdent798310
   February 10th, 2010 @ 8:35 pm

   see i seen sum services, seagate say they was going to charge. which in this case i dot mind.

   but i seen sum others that said if te data cant be saved no charge. aka if they TRY to get data and FUCK UP then they gun say it cant be recovered.

   sooo um a little scared at dat.

   oh and i need dat ide to adat thingy so i cant do it yet. (cheap on ebay for like $2.30)

6. jcdent798310
   February 10th, 2010 @ 8:35 pm

   i kno rite!?
   well i didnt buy it mos got it for cheap cheap. brand new.

   but this was the last thing i expected to happen

7. safetU2
   February 10th, 2010 @ 8:49 pm

   is not a rocket science, all you have to do is go into seagate website and you ll understand all, is full of Data Recovery Services, surely they must know that their hard drives suck, fukin bastards

8. safetU2
   February 10th, 2010 @ 9:31 pm

   jcdent798310, i got seagate Freeagent also 500gb, if you do try can you please tell me the outcome, i also got 320 seagate both are fucked, i will never buy from seagate anymore

9. jcdent798310
   February 10th, 2010 @ 9:54 pm

   ok thanks.

   p.s. yes the drive is spinning. and it has the adat (whatever its called) with the power and data things

10. FreeCompConsultant
    February 10th, 2010 @ 10:16 pm

    I have never done that, but I would suspect you could if you took the unit apart.

    Question is, though, how is the adapter different than the enclosure? – not too much.

    Does the drive sound like it’s spinning? Please use the support forum on my website for further assistance, much easier & faster.

    thanks.

11. jcdent798310
    February 10th, 2010 @ 11:11 pm

    hello. do you know if i can data recover my 250gb Seagate FreeAgent Go portable hard drive using this technique?

    It wont even get detected from my pc when i plug it up via usb, and when it does get recognized it freezes my pc.

    so if i was to do this technique do you think it would be able to read?

    Thanx in advance

12. FreeCompConsultant
    February 10th, 2010 @ 11:26 pm

    @rhodlhey I just updated the description of the video with a link to a USB hard drive adapter. Check other replies in comments below for the source of this adapter; USB is much easier though.

13. rhodlhey
    February 10th, 2010 @ 11:26 pm

    Where can I buy 2.5 HDD Adapter Kit?

14. olmangetitright
    February 10th, 2010 @ 11:29 pm

    Nice vid dude. Listen I accidentally formated my HD few weeks ago, what are the chance that a file can be recovered from it

15. bliceheart
    February 11th, 2010 @ 12:05 am

    @RebelBabe505 it means that your oparating system is corrupted, yeah if you tranfere the filestheir shouldbe no issues

16. josteinwrite
    February 11th, 2010 @ 12:23 am

    I have a harddrive PW on my broken laptop, which I, believe it or not, don’t remember what is. Will the PW request still be there when I try to recover the data from another computer?

17. sparrowcedar
    February 11th, 2010 @ 12:50 am

    will this method work for a dell passworded harddrive ?i passowrded the hd from bios settings but now the machine is bad but hd still there ….. i need my files….

18. vtbombz
    February 11th, 2010 @ 1:30 am

    i accidentally dropped my portable hard drive is there anyway to recover the files? the computer is readding but it isn’t showing up on my computer help plz

19. CaptainScarlet2006
    February 11th, 2010 @ 2:25 am

    My computer also died from a lightning storm i also pretend to recover the data.

20. RebelBabe505
    February 11th, 2010 @ 2:29 am

    I have the Presario 4000 and I got the blue screen yesterday that says I have an error (atapi.sys)… it DOES have a virus in it. I would like to recover the data in the hard drive (pictures, music, my favorite folder…ect)

    if I moved everything important over to my mothers computer,,,there shouldn’t still be an error, right??

21. karrunable
    February 11th, 2010 @ 2:53 am

    I have a Compaq laptop with a cracked screen that I currently have connected to an external monitor. My husband’s T61 dies last night (no lights, no post, nothing) and we need to recover data from the hard drive. Can I remove the hard drive fromn the Compaq and insert the T61 in it’s place, is it that simple?

22. michaelball123
    February 11th, 2010 @ 3:06 am

    Recuva is a good free recovery tool to use aswell

23. FreeCompConsultant
    February 11th, 2010 @ 3:32 am

    See my other video:

    Hard Drive Data Recovery With Vantec USB SATA IDE Hard Drive Adapter

24. elias2211
    February 11th, 2010 @ 3:55 am

    I don’t have a desktop i have another laptop, is there any way I can recover my old hard drive to the new laptop?
    Thank you

25. Peterpancase
    February 11th, 2010 @ 4:42 am

    Cool. you must be a data recovery expert . I lost all my data from my old laptop since I could not do this. It broke down and I had to throw it to garbage and all the data went with it:(.

    Next time I can recover data from it my self:)) Thanks for a great video.

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