Recovering a Broken Hard Drive

[blueerica]

We almost always use the network because we had a marketing manager (before my time), that only saved to his local drive and wiped it when he quit.

At that time, Marketing was the new kid in town for my company, an old-school company that had just handed the reigns over to a new generation. Our presence wasn't very much appreciated by the other departments... it's really only been more recently that things have changed for the positive in terms of getting inter-departmental help. While I think the data could have ultimately been saved, either no one in IT wanted to do it or they didn't know how to do it (or want to Google how to do it).

So, in my department, we're religious about saving to the network.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

You should probably look into a recovery service, if there was anything important on there. A few hundred $ might be worth it.

The company won't do it, they said too bad.

Originally Posted by blueerica

So, in my department, we're religious about saving to the network.

I've been trying to encourage people do back up to their "P"ersonal drive. But they don't get it, or why (despite explaining that hard drives aren't indestructible). Then I asked about mapping the My Documents folder (where everyone stores their stuff) to the "P"ersonal drive and my co-worker said people wouldn't understand it so they aren't going to do it.

Which brings me to a minor vent I'll put elsewhere.

[Moonliner]

BTD:

Try (In order):

Hold it upside down or at other odd angles while booting.
Give it a good hard wrap on the side with a small hammer, try to boot
Freeze it and then try to boot


Of course non of this will help one damn bit but it gives the illusion you are trying everything possible.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

The company won't do it, they said too bad.



I've been trying to encourage people do back up to their "P"ersonal drive. But they don't get it, or why (despite explaining that hard drives aren't indestructible). Then I asked about mapping the My Documents folder (where everyone stores their stuff) to the "P"ersonal drive and my co-worker said people wouldn't understand it so they aren't going to do it.

You can suggest a solution that synchs their My Documents folder with the network drive. That way things are both saved to the network AND available offline.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

You can suggest a solution that synchs their My Documents folder with the network drive. That way things are both saved to the network AND available offline.

That's what I suggested.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

That's what I suggested.

Was this "His" or "His Company" hard drive?

If it's his personal stuff, I can see the reluctance to back it all up to the company LAN.

If it's a company laptop why does get get a choice? It's company data and it needs to be protected.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Was this "His" or "His Company" hard drive?

If it's his personal stuff, I can see the reluctance to back it all up to the company LAN.

If it's a company laptop why does get get a choice? It's company data and it needs to be protected.

It's a company laptop hard drive. In general they don't force people to back up to the network. I may broach the subject again after I've been here longer.