Lost photos

[Dudley]

We have about 150 irreplaceable digital photos locked in a failed Fuji hard disk. Does anyone know where we could get these retrieved and the likely cost please?

[KebabMeister]

In what way has your Fuji hard drive failed?  Was it your master hard drive?  Please provide some more info - you may be able to access it by connecting it to an external hard drive interface (USB) and then connecting it to another computer so it can be interogated.  I managed to do that with mine.

[mattie]

You could contact these people -http://www.dataemergency.co.uk/.

Or simply do a search for data recovery, however, the procedure is not cheap, so it would have to be really worth it.

Also, consider buying a usb pen/flash drive for backup purposes, they are relatively cheap now so there is no excuse not to .

They are available from here http://www.crucial.com/uk/

[Fern57]

This may sound like a joke, but it can actually work. While working in a computer repair shop we came across a similar problem. By boss told me to put the hard drive in the freezer for an couple of hours - I thought I was being wound up too. But it actually worked enough to get to the C:\ prompt and save some of the files to floppy disks. If you can get the HD this far then you could probably set it up a a slave on another computer and burn the photos to a CD.
Hope this helps

[Dudley]

Thank you guys for your suggestions. The trouble is I don't really know much about it. The computer where the photos were downloaded to belongs to one of our party who visited The Masters Golf Tournament inUSA. The photos were of the tournament generally with some of ourselves in front of various landmark locations. The hard disk is with a small IT company who have tried a few of their usual methods to no avail. I will have to get it back and then talk to Data Recovery suggested by mattie. Thanks again for your interest.

[Fern57]

I bet if the police were to believe that there was something very naughty on the hard drive they would have no trouble retrieving the photos! lol

[Dudley]

You are absolutely right. Perhaps I should tell them there is something dodgy on there (only joking).