How to recover photos from my Lenova T60 Windows XP which does not see the WD 500 GB Mybook

How to recover photos from my Lenova T60 Windows XP which does not see the WD 500 GB Mybook

My laptop is not able to recognize my WD 500GB external hard drive. It has 2 partitions on it with data and photos that are very important to me. It suffered 3 power outages recently. When connected, it spins for a while and power off by itself. I can’t hear any unusual noise and tried to locate the drive in disk management tool but no luck. I really want to know how can I recover photos from my WD 500 GB external hard drive.

Solution:

It looks like your WD 500GB mybook has bad interface card. As mentioned in this scenario, a number of power outages can result in damaging the interface card in External hard drives.

If you have tools available, carefully remove your drive from the External hard disk enclosure and connect it to desktop computer using SATA cable if it is SATA hard drive or IDE cable if it is an IDE Hard drive. If your hard drive works normal and is recognized in disk management tool, quickly transfer your photos to your desktop’s internal hard drive without wasting any more time as your hard drive seems to be unstable due to numerous power outages. If you think that a power outage have also resulted in logical corruptions in your HD then you can simply search and download for the best Photo Recovery software available on web.

In the event if the hard drive is still not accessible then some of the physical issues like Firmware problem, Read/Write Head disk assembly might be possible. Data recovery tools like PC3000 can recognize and solve this issue. If your hard drive is facing physical problem then do not try to repair it yourself as you might probably present more harm and damages to your hard drive. Simply search for the Data recovery experts in your town and discuss the issue with them. They will for sure help recover your photos through the use of their professional recovery tools and experiences.

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