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    XPS M1730 HDD recovery

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by spradhan01, Dec 26, 2012.

  1. spradhan01

    spradhan01 Notebook Virtuoso

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    I had a faulty M1730 which was replaced. I took out the hard drive because I had a lot of data in it. Now I try to use it as an external device via an enclosure but it asks to format and use the drive.
    Any way how to get in the drive and recover my data?

    Thanks
     
    spradhan01, Dec 26, 2012
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Are you sure the HDD itself isn't bad? Can you install it in your current M1730 and boot from it?
     
    Commander Wolf, Dec 29, 2012
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    desone Notebook Guru

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    Get on ebay and buy a small usb sata hard drive enclosure. They can be purchased for under $10. Put the pard drive in it and connect it to another computer.
     
    desone, Dec 30, 2012
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    desone Notebook Guru

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    Sorry, I didn't read the post correctly. If you are running Windows 7 try Analysing the disk and then try to Repair it. Do not format it as Windows suggest as you will lose all your data.
    There are several commercial data recovery programs around for faulty disks.
     
    desone, Dec 30, 2012
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    ayourk Newbie

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    For data recovery, I found it best to hook up ANY dead/dying HDD via USB and run a program called GetDataBack on it.
     
    ayourk, Jan 4, 2013
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    spradhan01 Notebook Virtuoso

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    It had two hard drives in it (not on raid) and both hard drives are acting the same way. So, I guess its hard for both the hard drive to die at once.
    I don't have a M1730 anymore so I can't test it. I don't know what's going on. Two hard drives in M1730 and one hard drive in M17x acting the same way.
     
    spradhan01, Jan 5, 2013
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