Restore files How to get data off the dead hard drive?

If your hard drive is physically damaged, you have no other way unless ask the data recovery specialist for help. If you got a BSOD, your computer may cannot boot normally and enter into the system, you can try to fix by yourself. BSOD is short for Blue screen of death. When this error occurs, you cannot enter into the windows system normally. If you are lucky enough to come to the windows startup options, you still have way to recover your data. Even if you cannot come to the startup options, you still can use a windows disc to boot your computer.

How to boot from the windows disc?

After booting the computer, you can enter into BIOS settings, then change the setup to choose CD-ROM or other device. After you have successfully boot from the disc, you can choose the option of Recovery console. Then on the screen, in the command prompt window, you can type chkdsk /r to check and repair the errors on hard drive. If everything goes well, your computer will reboot and after that you are able to access to windows. If it does not work, you can boot into the recovery console again. Fixboot will help you to rewrite the startup sector on hard drive, Fixmbr command is to repair the Master boot record.

Another way is to remove your hard drive from the computer and then connect it with another healthy computer used as a slave drive. It will display as an external hard drive in the new computer. In this way, you do can access to the hard drive on the new computer so that you can transfer the data between the failed hard drive and the new computer easily.

If your hard drive occasionally has such problems, you can try to get the data off the drive as soon as possible. After you have retrieved all the data from the hard drive, you can try to fix it by yourself or ask the specialists to repair it. If the hard drive is physically damaged and cannot be recognized on the new computer, you will forever lost your data here. Therefore, you can only recover data from your backups. If you have no other copies, no one can help you.

How to restore files from a dead hard drive with data recovery tool?

First, you should boot the computer into the windows system, or remove the hard drive to connect a new computer and  make sure it recognized.

Second, run the Hdata recovery software. On the software interface, you should choose a recovery mode to scan the hard drive. Choose the mode of Hard drive partition lost or crash. If you connect the hard drive as a second drive for another computer, you should choose the mode of Deleted your files from flash disk. And no matter how you lost your data, you can choose the Universal Recovery to deep scan the drive.

Third, choose the partition to scan. It will scan automatically and the scanning should not be interrupted. The software provides the feature of preview and filter, so you can preview the scanning results and only check the files you need to recover.

Fourth, choose the recovery path. You should not choose the partition where have data loss as a recovery path. To avoid data overwritten caused by incomplete recovery, you should select another location to save the data.