Failed hard drive recovery How to recover data from failed hard drive?

Hard drive failure is an upsetting thing for all of us, especially when you have irreplaceable data on the drive. We are easy to have data loss facing the fatal hard drive failures like sudden computer crash, computer cannot boot and some other problems. If you cannot enter into your computer to recover your lost data, you still can try the following method to recover your files.

How to perform a failed hard drive recovery?

If your hard drive is crashed, you should remove it from the computer. You should take the internal hard drive out of your current computer and then connect it to another computer. To connect it to another computer, you need to use an USB to IDE-SATA hard drive connector. Use this connector to connect the crashed hard drive to the new computer as a secondary drive. Then you can boot the computer. Once the new computer can detect the crashed drive in BIOS, you are able to access to it.

As you have accessed to the drive, you can check the data on this drive. You can copy the data to another drive. If you cannot copy the files, you can try to use a data recovery software. But before you try to recover data, you should not write new data to this drive to overwrite the raw data. This is the essential condition for you to recover the files successfully.

Failed hard drive recovery software

As long as your crashed hard drive can be detected by new computer, you can run the hard drive data recovery software to retrieve the data here.

First, you need to install the data recovery software on their new computer.

Second, scan the crashed hard drive and do not interrupt the scanning process.

Third, after scanning, check the results, preview the files and check the files you need to recover.

Fourth, choose a recovery path for the files need to be recovered. To avoid data overwritten, you should not save the data on the crashed hard drive. You can put the data on the hard drive of new computer or other external drives.

In case your crashed hard drive doesn’t work on the new computer, you have to consult the data recovery company if you can afford the price. But keep in mind to find a really professional and reliable company. The hard drive data recovery needs a dust-free room and high technology. The professional companies have their professional tools and experts to help you, and you do not need to worry about private information reveal.