External hard drive data recovery software How to recover files from bad hard drive?

My hard drive cannot been recognized, so the drive is dead?

No. There are many external causes may lead to external had drive cannot be recognized. Sometimes, it doesn’t really dead. So you should know some cause for the drive cannot been recognized.

System or built-in driver problems

1. When boot PC, press F8 to enter into safe mode. Then exit safe mode and choose to restart or shut down computer. The registry could be restored in this process.

2. If the problem has not been solved, you can try the restoration function to restore system.

3. Then you can use the system repair disk. Input“SFC / SCANNOW”in command prompt and press enter. Insert the original hard disk repair disk, the system will restore by itself.

4. If the problem still exists, you can enter BIOS, and set the BIOS as the first boot system. Insert the system setup disk and press R to select the function of repair install

CMOS parameters setting problems

If your external hard drive still cannot be recognized as you have install the driver program properly, you need to modify the CMOS port settings. You should enable the USB device( The CMOS port setting is closed in default).

Power shortage problem

The power supply provided by USB cable is not enough for an external hard drive over 10 GB. Power shortage may cause hard drive cannot been recognized. So it’s necessary for external hard drive to have a DC stabilized power supply.

USB cable problems

The USB cable is broken or the interface of computer is in-consistence with the interface of external hard drive. In that case, you can change another USB cable.

Drive letter conflict

The drive letter conflict means that the drive letter belongs to the external drive are occupied by a local driver. You can use the disk manager or a third-party tool to modify the drive letter of external head drive.

In addition, if your external hard disk has really been dead. You should not rush into repairing it, you should recover data at the first time. Any operations to repair to repair it may cause second damage to data.

How can we recover data from an external hard drive?

First, download and run Hdata recovery software. Choose “ Universal recovery” in the software interface.

Second, then click the drive letter of your external hard drive to scan.

Third, when scanning ends, click to preview the scanned result and tick the files you need to restore them.

Fourth, select the path to save your recovered data. You can save them on your computer disk but not the external drive itself.