Data Recovery Guidelines
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If one morning you turn on your computer and nothing comes up the most important thing is Don't Panic. Be methodical and follow some logical steps :
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If you try to detect the drive in the computer BIOS and it is not detected this is usually a hardware failure.
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If the drive is making grinding or loud clicking noises do not keep trying to detect it, you will only cause more damage.
If no noises are heard, start up from a bootable floppy to confirm that the computer works.
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Connect another good drive to that cable to see if it will be detected. If it works you now know your drive has failed.
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If your Windows drive is detected by your computer BIOS, but you get a message like, "No OS present insert a bootable disk":
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Try booting from a floppy and then changing to drive C. Do a dir command to try to see the files.
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If a message says "Invalid media, abort, retry, fail" hit abort and then try to load Fdisk from your bootable disk.
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Do's & Don's when Disk Crash :
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Check all the connections of the media (power and data connections).
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If this fails, try connecting the same media on another working machine.
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If the above measure also fails, confirm whether the controller card is Ok.
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If every above given effort fails, immediately stop working on the media and Contact Us.
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Don't run any repair utility because these utilities can further aggravate the problem. These utilities are made to rectify any anomalies in the file system & get you working and not to recover your data.
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Don't let anybody, even your support engineer, experiment with the media.
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Don't work on the media.
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