recover data from harddisk

[nency.jariwala]

Anyone can help me to recover data from hard disk.
My friend's computer had serious problem & he lost allmost all the thing.
He now buy new motherboard,RAM & harddisk.
Now the problem is that how can he recover data from old hard disk.As the HDD is can't open OS & also it can;t open as secondary HDD.

We use one of the recover software but we can't recove.

Now you can help him.Pls...

Thanks in advance.

[soybean]

Assuming the hard drive was properly installed as a secondary HDD when that was tried, the only option is probably using a commercial data recovery service.  For example, see http://www.datarecovery.net/hard-drive-data-recovery.html

For more, Google on data recovery services.  Be aware that using such a service is probably going to be expensive.

[Jonas Wauters]

I use Recuva myself.
It works perfectly for data who isn't overwritten.
Let me know if it worked

Jonas

[Zylstra]

What kind of problem caused the data loss?

If it was a physical disk problem, your chances of recovery are not all that great. You will be able to recover some portions of data, but definitely not all.

Recover software will try its best to get your data back, but there is no guarantee.
Some of your data may be cut off, and not completed.
You shouldent use programs that have been recovered. Music, documents, pictures, maybe even save game files should be fine, but some of them may be truncated/cut off

[nency.jariwala]

Thanks for a reply.
As I said this is my friend's problem.When he is doing his programmimg suddenly tuen off computer & now can't turn on.All said that it was very old.So this done. ( About 6-7 years old)
The data are useful because he is a programmer & there are documents of his project in it.

I will try your suggetion.

Once thaks. Hope it will useful for him.

[Zylstra]

Perhaps something besides the harddrive is keeping the computer from powering on?

You might want to start a new topic and start troubleshooting it, that way, you might get your computer back.