"Martin Hotze" wrote in message
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On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 10:17:51 -0700, Peter Duniho wrote:

If the data is backed up, and there is 100% no chance of taking the drive
to
a recovery service, then there's no harm in messing around with utility
software. And there's a remote chance it might help. But otherwise, the
best course of action is to leave the drive powered down.

and what should the OP do with the powered down harddrive? He can't lose a
thing - no matter if his data is backed up or not. Just try to recover
your
data on the first attempt.

Do you *ever* bother to read these messages before you reply? Just to make
things easier for you, I'll leave in the text YOU QUOTED that explains what
you don't seem to be able to figure out yourself.

As I said already (and I guess you either forgot already or didn't bother to
read in the first place...see quoted text above), the reason to keep the
drive powered down is to avoid additional damage, so that a *professional*
data recovery service has a better chance of recovering the data.

The average user, if they really need the data back, all they are going to
accomplish by futzing around themselves with the drive is to make it harder
for someone who knows what they are doing to recover the data. It's much
better to keep the thing powered down than to mess with it.

Got it now? Or should I explain it a third time?

Pete