I originally wrote this article back in 2006 and it currently holds the title as my most popular post. Since hard drive recovery seems to be a hot topic, I decided to update it with all the latest and greatest hard drive recovery information. Enjoy!
If you are a tech, then you probably know that hard drive failures are inevitable. Chances are that sooner or later it will happen to someone you support or possibly even you. The good news is that there are lots of great recovery tools and methods out there and I would like to share them with you.
Connect the Drive to Another Computer
Before you can do any work on the crashed drive you will need to remove it from the current machine and connect it to another machine as a secondary drive. The best way to do this is to use a USB to IDE/SATA adapter. If you don’t have one available then you may be able to connect the drive to another desktop computer internally as a secondary drive. If you do, make sure that the machine detects the drive in the BIOS or you won’t be able to access it once the computer starts up.
Try to Copy the Data to Another Drive
After you connect the drive to another computer either internally or with the USB adapter, check to see if you can browse the contents of the drive. If you can, try to copy data off that you would like to recover. There is a chance that only the operating system is corrupt and the user data is still fine.
Use Data Recovery Software
If you can’t manually copy the user data off then you can try to recover it using data recovery software. Whatever you do, do not install the recovery software on to the drive that you are trying to recover data from. Doing so could actually overwrite files that you want to restore.
PC Hard Drive Recovery
Recuva
Recuva is a free hard drive recovery tool from Piriform (the makers of CCleaner) and is one of the best free PC data recovery tools available. Even if the drive has been formatted, Recuva can scan the drive recover files. If the basic scan fails, there is also a deep scan to discover more deeply-buried results. There is also a portable version if you don’t want to install the full version.
When you launch Recuva, you will be presented with a wizard that will guide you through restoring your files. First you will choose the type of file you need to recover, then the location, and then start the scan or choose “Enable Deep Scan” if the quick scan doesn’t find the files you need to recover.
PC Inspector File Recovery
PC Inspector File Recovery is the recovery software that I originally featured in this article back in 2006. It’s still a decent recovery tool and can be used if you are unable to recover the files you need with Recuva.
When you launch PC Inspector File Recovery, you will need to choose your language. After this, you will be presented with a welcome screen giving you three options.
The first option is “Recover Deleted Files”. This allows you to restore files that have been permanently deleted from the drive. This will only work if the deleted file has not already been overwritten.
The second option is “Find Lost Data”. This allows you to recover data that has been lost due to a system crash. If you choose this option, you will be asked for the “start cluster” and “end cluster”. Leave the default settings to scan the whole drive. The scan could take a couple of hours depending on how large your drive is.
The third option is “Find Lost Drive”. Use this option if your drive letter is not showing up in Windows Explorer or My Computer. It will attempt to connect to the drive and if successful, allow you to browse the data.
Hiren’s BootCD
Hiren’s BootCD allows you to boot into a slimmed down version of Windows called MiniXP from the bootable CD or bootable flash drive and run diagnostic utilities on a problematic computer. Recuva is one of the utilities that comes bundled with Hiren’s so you can run it right from the CD. This is helpful if you don’t have a USB to IDE/SATA adapter or just don’t want to pull the drive from the machine.
You will need to connect another drive to the machine such as a USB flash drive or an external hard drive so you will have a place to copy your recovered data to.
GetDataBack
If the free utilities are not doing the trick then give GetDataBack a try. GetDataBack is sold in two different versions, one for NTFS and the other for FAT files systems. If you want to make sure it’s going to work first before you pay $79 for the NTFS version or $69 for the FAT version, they do have a demo version that will allow you to see what files it can recover. If you like what you see, you can purchase the full version right then and there without even having to close out of the program. I personally have had lots of success with GetDataBack when other recovery methods have failed.
After launching GetDataBack you will be asked to pick from a selection of data loss scenarios that the drive experienced. If you aren’t sure, just select “I don’t know.” After this you will select the drive, the partition on that drive, and then start the scan.
Mac Hard Drive Recovery
MiniTool Mac Data Recovery
MiniTool Mac Data Recovery is a data recovery tool specifically designed for Mac OS X. It’s one of the few free Mac data recovery programs which is why I have featured it here, however, it still has a 1GB recovery limit. After that you must pay for the full version.
When you launch MiniTool you will be presented with 4 options based on the type of recovery you would like to perform. Undelete Recovery, Damaged Partition Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery, and Digital Media Recovery. Once you choose your recovery type, you will then be asked to select the drive that you want to recover from.
Disk Drill
Disk Drill is one of the newest recovery apps for the Mac OS X platform and has quickly been deemed one of the best. You can download the Basic Edition for free which will allow you to see a list of the files that you can recover. If the files you want to recover are detected, you can then purchase the Pro Edition and move forward with the recovery.
When you launch Disk Drill, you will be presented with the option to either Protect or Recover. You will want to choose Recovery to begin your recovery process. You will then choose your drive and then select either Quick Scan (for deleted files) or Deep Scan (for lost data). Once it is finished you can select the files you wish to recover.
Put Your Hard Drive in the Freezer to Recovery Data
If all other methods fail, there is one other nontraditional method that may allow you to recover files on your own. To learn more, check out my previously posted article titled Put Your Hard Drive In The Freezer To Recover Data. This does not apply to solid state drives.
Use a Data Recovery Service
And finally, if none of these methods work then you will probably need to send the drive off to a data recovery service.
Gillware is one of the top recommend data recovery services in the industry. Some of the benefits they offer are immediate online price estimates, no up front payments, and the ability to see a list of all the recovered files through their website to ensure the files you need are listed before paying a dime.
If you have a success story or would like to recommend other recovery methods, please feel free to share.
After trying everything else but before sending your hard drive to the professionals you can try swapping the circuit board on the hard drive with one from a working IDENTICAL hard drive (apart from brand, family and size make sure firmware matches as well). This has worked twice for me so far.
The post above said “1. Remove problematic drive 2. install it as a secondary drive in another PC 3. Boot into Windows and 4. download PC Inspector File Recovery.”
I might suggest that is like asking Ben Bernanke to fix the Federal Reserve – the same guy who helped rob it blind. Relying on “MICROSOFT/WINDOWS ANYTHING” (free or not) to repair anything is asking for even more trouble.
Try this – zero Microsoft/Windows required – no tearing out hard drives required – you just need a USB Flash and a working PC somewhere that has internet (which you also need with the plan above).
Step 1: Any size USB Flash Drive is OK – down to about 1 GB – which is tiny today.
You can also use an external USB hard drive – but won’t need that to get started.
Step 2: go to another PC with internet
Step 3: download a small bootable version of Linux that boots off a USB Flash Drive.
You might not stick with it later – they often lack features that Windows has but as a TOOL to do this job – get your data back – its the best thing since its free and boots right off a USB Flash Drive on 90% of all PCs out there today.
DO NOT download some mega-large Linux hard drive recovery tool.
Honestly, most of them are junk – even at free – and take a long time to download.
Good Choices are:
a) Pocket Rocket Linux – easily reads NTFS data automatically – small and fast to download
b) Tiny Core Linux – probably the smallest of them all but requires a bit of configuration to read NTFS drives
c) Puppy Linux – a bit fatter than A or B, but can be configured to read NTFS
d) Knoppix – usually installs from CD – not USB – so its the biggest/fattest to download and that can take hours.
Suggest A or B
Step 4: configure your BIOS on the dead PC to boot from a removable device first – i.e. your new USB flash drive
Step 5: insert finished USB drive (5 minutes using A or B, 60 minutes using C, 3 – 6 hours using D) and reboot
Step 6: connect a large external USB hard drive (not Flash Drive) and most of the Linux packages above will see it
Step 7: right click – select all – copy – drag and drop/paste the key folders and files you want. Usually My Documents is a good place to start.
Step 8: figure out what is missing on your Windows system. You can even get online – get other tutorials – and then go to your original Windows boot CD to find the exact file you need – just recopy that and you’re often fixed and don’t need a complete install.
This is important, since keycodes expire after a certain number of installs.
DO NOT (be careful) download specific Windows or PC specific files – except at authorized sites like Microsoft etc since they are often infected. Try to use your original, manufactured/authentic Windows CD.
DO NOT rely on original Recovery CDs – they often wipe out your data. Sorry.
DO back up frequently – but if you don’t – as long as the drive still spins up – you can use this method to at least get your data back and that is the one thing that you cannot replace. You can always re-install your operating system, but you cannot always get your photos, audio files, spreadsheets, docs and videos back if you make a mistake here.
Use this method and you’ll get it all back – fast and free – saving $1,000 or more from recovery services.
Free is a good thing.
Hope this helps.
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Hi Grandma,
I got this problem when I was updating one of the driver on my lappy. I got one message “Fatal error” and since then many windows program and personal files/folder disappeared. I thought this is a temporary problem so I restarted the lappy assuming it will fix automatically. After restarting it is going in startup check repair mode and finally ending with saying registry is corrupt. I copied the registry key of the date before this problem occurred using manual command prompt even then my laptop is going in start up check repair. I tried safe mode and other option using F12 but still the result is same – start up check repair. I tried to boot the laptop using reboot-able flash drive through Ubuntu and it booted successfully but I could see only few GB of my personal data other files/folders I am not able to see. My laptop hard disk is 320 GB which contains almost 200 GB of personal data likes files/photos/movies etc. But as I said I could see only few GBs data out of that 200GB personal data. Could you please guide me how to recover all the personal data from the failed hard drive. It would be great help from you as these personal data is really important for me. Please do help.
You can do software recovery yourself, but there is a lot of technical stuff that can be done that is beyond the average user (or even tech). Even the clean room recovery places say most drives do not end up going to the clean room! So I’d try a middle-of-the road place to do what they can before I drop the $1,200!
I go into it here: http://durangopcguy.com/2013/06/hard-drive-recovery/.
I do like the circuit board swap you mentioned. I may have to look into that… Thanks!
I have a hard drive that crashed, and it have two (2) partition. I can read the second partition, but not the first one. What can i do in this case?
you can repair via hirens boot cd.
What software can i use to recover data from bad clusters in a hard drive?
restoration is free software.
Hey Vinnie,
If the software in the article above does not work then I would highly recommend trying this method. http://www.caseytech.com/put-your-hard-drive-in-the-freezer-to-recover-data/ This method has proven to be successful for many people with unreadable hard drives. If that doesn’t work then you might have to consider sending it off to a data recovery service.
The “freezer” trick on modern drives will most often do more harm than good. There is “clean air” inside hard drives. The air is clean (no dust) but it does contain moisture like the air we breath. When these things get cold that moisture in the air will condense on the platters. Modern hard drives have a magnetic float height that is typically significantly less than 50 nanometers. A tiny, barely visible droplet of water is like a mountain that the magnetic read head will crash into.
When drives are “clicking” it is most commonly because there is an electrical short in the preamplifier or a magnetic read head. No matter how hot or cold you get it, it’s still going to be shorted.
I am in the storage industry for 10+ years and have worked on the guts of thousands of drives.
an easier way without pulling the harddrive, is to run a live linux, my favorite is knoppix, you can run from the cd, (of course first setting your boot options in BOIS to cdrom) then you can pull the data to a second installed burner or if the computer is networked use samba to transfer the information off of the bad drive. once i have the info that is salvageable off, it’s time to test and see if the drive is worthy of saving or time to replace.
I only plug IDE cables to a PC with damaged mother or processor or something like that or recovery of deleted. 2 foot long cables helps.
Rlinux freeware works for recovery of deleted recycle bin but I can take a few hours.
http://www.findapp.com/fmgmt/Pdetails.aspx?PID=4590
List of live CDs. Sometimes UBCD wont boot and Knoppix, Slax will or Ubuntu. I cant depend one just one so I have about 7 iso burned.
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
With Linux live I recover the files to a thumb drive.
Regwizz on UBCD is handy for restore points.
If I know its really going Ill try the freezer trick and getting PC inspector. Thanks.
Oh someone post a link on making a UBCD for someone that has a ealy XP disk without SP1. It was a real pain and I want to upgrade UDCD new version.
you wrote “UBCD” and I am not sure if you meant USB CD (as in plastic disc) or USB Flash Drive (as in little thumb drive with USB Plug)
The post I made above (black text on gray) describes 4 sites you can use to make a USB Flash Drive that boots up and can read the hard drive. You still will need a 2nd PC that has internet – but its all free and pretty darn fast and the install for choice A and B is easy.
I WAS HOPING THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO TELL ME IF THERE IS A WEB SIGHT I CAN GO TO . THAT WILL LET ME DOWN LOAD SOAFT WARE TO RECOVER INFOMATION FROM A HARD DRIVE THAT HAS CRASHED ? AS WELL AS ANY OTHER SOAFT WARE THAT MAY BE USE FULL FOR A PERSON THAT IS TEACHING HIS SELF HOW TO FIX COMPUTERS ! THANK YOU TONY
I also recommend using SpinRite instead of PC Inspector. I’ve used both and while SpinRite takes longer, it’s MUCH more thorough and has restored dead hard drives that PC Inspector couldn’t even read. Also, SpinRite can correct clusters identified as “bad” when they truly aren’t, resulting in a drive that operates as fast as when it was new; this is critically important for newer, larger drives which have much more frequently labeled “bad” clusters (even though the drives automatically compensate for them in firmware). Trust me, having BOTH applications is very worthwhile.
PS SpinRite has an interesting copyright…it’s free to distribute copies to colleagues based on the assumption that those receiving the copies will find it useful and will purchase a license which, of course, is pretty inexpensive.
PPS Steve Gibson (of Steve Gibson Research, grc.com) is the brilliant mind behind SpinRite. I rank him right up there with Mark R. of Sysinternals.
This may sound strange…but it worked for me just now and I was able to recover all my data before the drive crashed again.
I had tried putting it in the freezer, but it was 120 GB drive…so it would heat up and crash before I was able to complete the copying process.
I put the drive in the freezer then after hooking the drive back up I took a small freezer bag and filled it with ice. I placed the small freezer bag in a large freezer bag and then placed the problematic drive in the large freezer bag against the bagged ice while I copied over all my data.
trojan horse in your free program
Some people have mentioned using Knoppix to recover data from a crashed hard drive. I just got done recovering the data from my bosses hard drive ysing an Ubuntu LiveCD.
Directions on how to do that are
here
i tried to do it but when i go to my computer in ubuntu the computer didnt find any drives.If u know any solution plz tell me
try Pocket Rocket Linux or Tiny Core Linux – both install to USB when some of the other larger Linux packages cannot and both can be configured to read NTFS Windows Data – Pocket Rocket Linux is a bit easier to use and installs pretty fast.
please i need help on my crashed hard drive installed with xpsp2,it was updating and was shutting down when i mistakenly pushed the power button,since then my laptop refused to boot,it keeps on recycling on your best known configuration that worked screen etc.so i bought an external sata drive case and fix the HDD on it and plugged it on another laptop but i was making a clicking noise and was not recognizing or reading.please am so confused cos i have a whole lots of stuffs on my laptop.
hey i have problem on my hardrive, he cannot detect on bios, i can try another pc, cannot detect, how to recover my file
Guys i think you should also learn to have backups just for security purposes.I normally backup online with safecopy backup and here everything including the costs are fine and more to that now they give a free unlimited 5GB trial version.I love my laptop but this does not stop me form backing up online just to avoid my data from getting lost incase my hard drive crashes.
Great, this fixed our problem on the job! I can’t wait to browse more =D
Would this work if the hard drive crashed is “unreadable”? I took it to some one to repair it, they-re installing a new drive but they say the contents of the old one are unsccessible as the drive won’t read
“make sure that is detecting the drive in bios? If its a bad drive it wont be detected in BIOS. WTF? if bios detects the drive then you are good……this post is worthless…fuking douche
Rob,
Not all hard drive failures result in a completely dead drive. Most of the time they will still show up in the bios but will require data recovery methods similar to the ones above because you cannot boot from them. Trust me, as someone who has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years, I have been able to recover data from drive failures countless times following steps similar to the ones in this post.
-Casey
Hi Rob – I know crashed drives – viruses – and slow systems get us all pretty wound up – we all blow – but the author is just trying to provide A TOOL to help folks “not blow” – rather “stay cool” and “work together” – because losing data can make you cry – heavily.
So…wtfyp (we truly feel your pain) – try one of the methods here – the post is pretty good – lots of options and ideas – and I will guess that if you use one of the Linux methods (see my first post) you can get to your data. I have even seen one of the tools above (PRL) get to a drive when BIOS didn’t see it but the Linux ntfs-3g somehow found it and was able to mount it and get to the data…so ya never know until you try and yes – a lot of times it doesn’t work – but persistence – especially when going after important photos and spreadsheets – is the key – along with patience.
Ok heres one for everyone. I can read the drive with another computer can even see partition and see the other drive. One I cant read is F: the G: is accesible and can be read. Whenever I load via 2.5 hd reader I get a message saying it wants to format the drive which I dont want to do. Now using pc inspector aint worked. Now from what i can see is I format the drive and then use pc inspector to recover the lost folder (pictures) thats all my friend really wants saved. But is there not a program I can use to access this drive. With pc inspector Ive managed to find all the old deleted files but this is not what I need I need to access the current folder and get its files. Any ideas????
use one of the tools I listed in the first post – black text on gray background – and you can read, select, copy, paste all those files to either the USB Flash Drive or better is an external USB Hard Drive – much more space. Either way it starts with a USB Flash Drive.
My laptop died on me this week, and after running the PSA and everything, the Dell support told me that it’s a HDD failure. Since they are going to replace a new one for me, and I’m given 15 days to try to backup that faulty HDD, I’ll give everything a try.
Oh jeez, this will suck big time if I can’t retrieve my dog’s puppy photos…
The tool listed in this article is a very good tool and we have used it before in a recovery. However, if anyone is still unable recover the data feel free to look us up.
Alias Forensics
This only applies to drives without physical damage. If the drive is clicking, beeping, buzzing, or has been dropped don’t attempt self recovery if the data is important.
Remember, once the damage has been done it can be permanent. Please be sure to take your drive to a professional the first time if the data is important. If you can’t afford a professional recovery right now then safely store the drive until you can.
Don Anderson
Tri-State Data Recovery & Forensics, LLC
http://www.southjerseydata.com
http://www.realdatarecovery.com
Great fascinating post! The tools mentioned here are all powerful and free something invaluable for the person who can’t afford and the small business man. Casey or Grandma I have a question for you guys I’m an IT professional myself and have 5 yrs experience working in the field(can’t compete with these guys for experience lol
one question though is will I be able to recover those files if there is a new windows partion on the drive? Want some info before I give it a shot!
OH by the way I have to correct grandma on puppy you rank it low because you may not have used it much but puppy linux can easily fall in with pocket and tiny core!
Regards!
Joshua
Hi Joshua,
Glad you like the post. PC Inspector File Recovery may be able to recover files after a reformat as long as Windows itself (or any other apps that you have installed since reformatting) haven’t overwritten the sectors containing the files you are trying to recover. Take a look at Recuva too. https://www.piriform.com/recuva It’s another free data recovery app that was released after I originally wrote this article. Hope this helps!
-Casey
Is there a way to recover data if the drive doesn’t show up in disk management and when PC inspector tries to find logical drives, it keeps on getting fails?
Hi Calvin,
If the drive isn’t showing up in disk manager and PC inspector can’t see it then it’s possible that the failed drive might be beyond these recovery methods. If this is the case then you may have to send it off to a data recovery service like Ontrack.
First my Windows Vista computer would not boot. Took it to repair shop to check it out. They said it needed a new drive and they could not recover data from old one because it was dead??? Paid to have new hard drive installed and took old drive back with me because I did not believe what they said. They said it was making a clicking sound and was unrepairable. It was not making a clicking sound so I new they were not telling the whole truth. I started buy buying a usb to sata drive so I could hook the drive up externally. Hooked it up and the drive would spin up a but I could not see it, I then decided to purchase the pcb for the drive and went to manufacturers website to make sure that I matched the new board to the old board as best as I could. Found one on E-bay and purchased for 40.00 dollars. After replacing the board drive spin up great and now I was able to see a external drive in “my computer”. Double clicked on it, but got error “the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable” searched internet and found how to run “chkdsk” in the command prompt. I ran it on the affected drive by typing in chkdsk I: /r something like that you can find this on any repair website. I can now double click on the drive and there is 84 gb of my data. I am very happy. My question now is how to get that back on my computer the fastest and best way and not screw up all that I done. And also find any other data that the chkdsk did not fix possibly. After all this work I want it all back. But I need to do it the right way. Any Ideas?
Connecting the drive to a computer as a secondary drive and then manually copying the data over is probably the best way and shouldn’t screw anything up. Chkdsk may have fixed everything but you won’t know until you start copying stuff. If your copies fail then you will want to use a program like Recuva to help restore your data. Keep us posted.
Thanks for the article, Casey.
My HD is bad, had a new one put in, need the files off the old one.
Bought the SATA cable adapter, hooked it up, four drives showed up in Windows Explorer (E,F, G, H).
Downloaded Recuva, but it stops when I select the drive to scan.
Note – my computer won’t boot if I have the old drive plugged in when I start or restart it. I have to start Recuva, then plug in the USB/SATA cable.
Got any suggestions?
Thanks,
Tooz
Go to start than run and type in cmd then enter. The dos command window should pop up. Type chkdsk x: /r where x is your external drive and it should start to repair it. Let it go. I am by no means an expert but this worked for me.
Hi Keith,
Thanks for sharing. This may work depending on what type of issue he is having. I left this out of the article though because I was trying to focus strictly on data recovery and not repair. In some cases, running a utility like chkdsk can make things worse. If the data is very important, and he doesn’t want to run the risk of making it worse, then I would recommend staying away from chkdsk and focus only on recovery. I did a quick search and found this article which explains it a little more if you are interested. http://ezinearticles.com/?CHKDSK—Life-Saver-Or-Disk-Drive-Killer?&id=1326003
Tooz,
Did you try any of the other recovery programs I listed? I would recommend trying the demo version of GetDataBack and seeing if that works. If it does then you will have to purchase it to perform the recovery. If the hard drive had Windows XP, 2003, Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8 installed then you probably need the GetDataBack for NTFS version. Hope this helps. Keep us posted.
I downloaded and tried Recuva, but it didn’t find any files.
Before I read your response, I tried the chkdsk as Keith suggested. It showed there were files, but I still could not access them.
I guess I’ll try again with GetDataBack – it that doesn’t work, I’ll have to get ready to spend a lot of money, I guess…
Thanks for your time and efforts on my behalf!
Tooz
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GetDataBack didn’t work either… took it to a friend’s “computer guy” and he couldn’t read anything from it… said something about a corrupted Master Boot Record (MBR)…
I’m screwed…
(any ideas, other than spending $300 – $1,000?)
Hi Tooz,
If GetDataBack couldn’t recover the files then I’m not sure if there is much else you can do. If it is an issue with the Master Boot Record then GetDataBack should have been able to still see the files so I think the problem is more serious then that. Reach out to Gillware and get an estimate. It may be cheaper than you think.
this info is all for a crashing hard drive, not a CRASHED hard drive. My drive is completely crashed, meaning when I boot the PC, it isn’t recognized and the PC will not pass Post. It just sits there as long as the drive is connected. I need a method that works for this.
Hi
The tools listed here are very good tools for data recovery from a crashed hard drive and all are probably time tested for data recovery. I particularly like GetDataBack for the purpose. However, if anyone is still unable to recover his lost data from the failed drive he may look into the following useful article which I found very helpful while searching the web.
http://radharenu.hubpages.com/_1fvrvpoyw4f0q/hub/How-to-Recover-Data-from-a-Dead-Hard-Drive-a-complete-guide
Hi, I have a PC with which I was using a Seagate external drive to store all my photos and videos. My son has a Mac and he connected my external drive to view photos and now neither of our computers recognizes the drive. He said he never reformatted when he connected it. I’m just wondering if there is hope for getting my pictures back? Thanks!
i have exactly the same problem as cararoxoxo, just in reverse.
my seagate external drive was working fine on my mac (maybe just taking a while to be mounted sometimes) up until i plugged it into my cousin’s PC. we all saw the pop-up window asking if we would like to “Format” or “Cancel”. we naturally chose cancel.
now my mac can’t mount my external drive, although it can be seen in disk utility.
fingers crossed for any help possible! (meanwhile, wondering if the freezer method will work?)
I installed a software “Blackberry OS” on my PC and I was instructed to restart my PC which I did, Unfortunately the PC failed to boot, I got this message showing “BOOTMGR Image is corrupt, system cannot boot” sometimes I do get “BOOTMGR is Missing” I had to repair it with Windows Installation CD” which was the only way, now the light indicating the HDD is not even showing again, and the PC is not even booting at all
As i connect my adata hv610 external drive to any laptop or pc’s it displays the message “one of the USB device attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognise it” so i cant access the drive where i have stored my important files. So pls can any one help me for the mentioned problem so i can recover my files.
Dear sir
i got a problem with my hard drive i dont know why. my windows xp was cuppupted and i cant access my data afterthat i remove that hard drive and i connect that hard drive in other pc but i show that hard drive with differant drive but i cant access it when i double click on peticular dir there is give me the message of format your hard drive so please help me how to recover my data
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