How to diagnose the dead hard drive to recover lost files

Hard drive failure is annoying and frustrating for computer users. The computer problems are various and complex. We cannot always aware the little problems. When the computer failed, we have to fix it. Sometimes, you are lucky for you have backups. But not everyone are the same lucky as you, if you have no backup, what should we do? And how can we diagnose the computer when the computer is failed?

How to diagnose the internal hard drive?

First, you need to confirm the hard drive connection. The hard drive is not always really dead. You can check the cable which connect the hard drive and the motherboard. You should make sure that cable is firmly connected. For safety, you need to turn off the power of computer first before you perform this check. Unplug and re-plug the cable, then reboot your computer.

Second, listen to the sound made by the hard drive carefully. The abnormal clicking or grinding sound suggest that your hard drive is dying.

Third, check if the hard drive is detected by the computer. You need to boot the computer and then enter the BIOS. If the drive cannot be recognized by computer, you may need to replace the SATA cable or enable the BIOS setting of this drive.

As long as the hard drive has not really dead, you can recover the data. If your computer cannot boot up by itself, you can try to boot from your created boot disk.

How to boot fromwindows disk?　

There are various computer problems, you can take simple steps to recover the data.　

After booting the computer, you can enter into BIOS settings, then change the setup to choose your boot device. After you have successfully boot from the disc, you can choose the option of Recovery console. Open the command prompt window, you can type chkdsk /r to check and repair the errors on hard drive. Reboot computer and after that you are able to access to windows. And you can also remove your hard drive from the computer and then connect it with another healthy computer used as a second 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 you suspect your hard drive is dying, you should back up your data immediately and try to fix it. After the hard drive fails but it has not dead, you need to get off the data. Data recovery software can help you to retrieve all the lost data on the failed

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