Computer hard drive rescue

Princess Valiant said

Don't really know what all this smart people talk is all about but now you're making me think I might be able to save lost pictures on a computer that went out in a blaze of glory.

Hurts because I had pictures from quite awhile back and cars I used to have. When I graduated high school and college. So much and poof gone.

Now I back up everything monthly on external drives and they go in fire/ water proof safes in three different locations

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Hey Rain
I used to do data recovery when I ran my Computer Service Business.

I would take a so called Dead Hard Drive out of failed computer, manually power it up so the drive is spinning, then do a clone copy of the old drive over to a brand new hard drive.

Using Acronis Cloning software, was able to do the clone copy. Then at the end of the cloning process the Acronis Software would rewrite a new "Boot Sector" to the newly cloned drive.

Put the drive back in the original computer and it boots up/starts up again, and there is all the lost data there back to life.

Ready to copy to an external hard drive for safe keeping.

So yes there are a few different variations of how to go about Data Recovery. From basically powering up the drive to read and copy the information from it. To actually clone copying the failed hard drive over to a brand new drive.

If serious about wanting to get your lost data and pictures back, I can give you a hand with that. PM me . . .