I had purchased a desktop computer 5 years back. Now I have purchased a laptop, that’s why I didn’t use it from the last two years. I have some old pictures and I need them now. So yesterday when I opened the computer, it didn’t start. When I swapped the hard disk with my friend’s drive, it started. So I felt the problem is in my hard drive. Can you tell me about the recovery of data from bad hard drive?
There are basically two type of damaged to a drive: physical and logical. If the problem Is physical, then it is hard to repair it by yourself; but take help of professionals in that case. If it is some logical problem, then the problem can be resolved by yourself. By the way you can check the problem using this method.
- Reboot your computer.
- Go to BIOS.
- In BIOS settings check if the drive is shown there.
If it is shown, then it is logical problem else it is physical problem.
In case of logical problem follow these steps can be taken.
- Find another PC with operating system installed.
- Attach your hard drive with PC.
- Keep your hard drive as slave, while the PC’s drive as Master.
- Copy your valuable data to an external drive or USB drive.
This procedure will let you use your hard drive; in case you are having problems, feel free to call on 1.800.347.5377.