CinemaStar 7K500 HCS725040VLAT80 400 Gb Hitachi Hard Drive Data Recovery

David A. A.
Arpin WI USA

The screen went black and had white letters saying "NO OPERATINGS SYSTEM DETECTED. The drive was not opened and no recovery attempts made.

• This was our family PC with 4-years of pictures containing our 4-year old twin boys, the thought of loosing them was unbearable, and many thanks to you that we got them all back. Our gratification for your work is endless...

Tom F.
Laird Tech
Trenton, NJ USA

Hitachi HDS722525VLAT80 SATA

The drive in question was set as a slave drive. The operator system on the Primary drive had to be reinstalled. The slave drive was removed from the computer and the Primary drive was formatted when the operating system was reinstalled. The slave drive was then put back into the machine and the operating system only saw the drive as having a capacity of 120GB. Because of the errors we decided all of the data off of the slave drive. The files were put onto an external drive. After verifying that the files were readable on the external drive we deleted them from the slave drive. We then decided to copy the two main directories. This is when the folders appeared empty...

• Thanks for your help...