Quote from: DaveLembke on July 15, 2008, 02:53:47 PM

I use a software called GetDataback FAT and NTFS to get data off clunking drives. The CREATOR if the software found a way to sweep the platters when the arm clunks to reassemble the data onto a healthy HARD drive... This software saved a laptop users *censored* at my company where I am the IT guy... He was suppose to be storing all data onto a mapped network drive that has RAID, and instead all his data was in MY DOCUMENTS .... Lets just say that he was having a melt down when he realized the SEVERITY of his laptop HD crash.

I bought this software and installed it to a Pentium II 300 Mhz computer I had running Windows 2000 Pro to have NTFS support and installed this software, and left the 2.5" laptop HD resting in a safe location in the open case with a 2.5" to 3.5" IDE com board and plugged in the P connector on this board to power the hard drive as a slave.

After a week of clunking I recovered all but a few excel documents that were destroyed and thankfully low priority. I saved the day with this software, but it took a week of clunking to reassemble all the data to the healthy drive in which it will create a new directory tree with all the recovered data. This can then be exported to a CD or DVD etc and moved to the proper location.

Link for software: http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

Good luck....this software is not free, and worked for our clunking drive.