How can I recover my files from a damaged external hard drive?
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when a hard drive is makeing a noise and not being seen on the computer. then the hard drive is haveing a hardware failing. the onley people can help you are data recovery people. software will not get your data back because it is not being seen by the computer.
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download stella data recovery software.it will recover your harddisk data.
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That is extremely bad news, a few years ago it would be the worst. I'm afraid what you'll have to do is reformat the drive. \n\nFortunately all is not lost as there are two pieces of software that will recover the data from the drive after this has taken place.\n\nGetDataBack and Ontrack Easy Recovery - I've used GetDataBack before in the same situation and found it works brilliantly.\n\nThe best of luck, and next time remember to back up to DVD or CD.
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"PC Inspector File Recovery" is a free software. Download it from "http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pcinspector.html". Its a pretty descent program.\nHowever, I will recommend you use\nGetDataBack for FAT or\nGetDataBack for NTFS\ndepending upon your file system. These are of course paid ones but they are very reliable.
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Freezing the drive for 30 minutes or so may revive the heads of the drive and give you 20 minutes to retrieve the data. You can buy programs like OnTrack's EasyRecovery (if the drive is still able to read data) and recover files from a bad file system. If you have super important files, you can pay companies (like OnTrack) to recover the data in a specialized lab, but the service costs in the thousands of dollars, depending on the necessary work.\n\n*** NOTE *** If the drive is making anything but a faint whiring noise, power it off and leave it alone. Continued use may lead to permanent physical damage and make recovery impossible. It must be handled by a professional.
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Google "recover my files"
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Use the following link to download this file : Recover my files
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Use PC Inspetor File Recovery!!!\n\nYou can download it from http://www.downlaod.com
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Most external hard drives are just an internal ide drive with its own power supply. You should be able to remove the drive, set it as slave and install it in your PC. This is pretty simple. If the drive is still ok, you can then recover the data.
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try PCinspector file recovery which is free and u could also try handy recovery
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There are two ways that immediately come to mind, fixing it yourself with Norton Utilities, or sending it to a company like DriveSavers.\n\nNorton Utilities has the ability to scan a crashed hard disk and allow you to copy the contents to another drive. This works well with hard disks with "soft" crashes (The FAT table is corrupt, the drive forgets where files are)\n\nIf the drive has physically crashed, your only option may be a company like DriveSavers. They actually take your drive into a clean room, remove the platters, and put them into a new mechanism, then try to recover your data. They have a high success rate, but they often charge hundreds, if not thousands to recover your data.\n\nAs for preventing this, other than not kicking or dropping your computer, there isn't much you can do to prevent a hard disk crash. Always make sure your critical data is backed up!
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Assuming it is/was on your harddrive, this should get you started: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=data+recovery  If not, you're out of luck.
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use badcopy software for this it is recover the data from floppy\nhttp://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/
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get this http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1733195&CatId=2213\nstick your hard drive in it and plug it in the usb port and you can get all of the info from your old drive and now you have a handy, portable hard drive!
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there is no way to do it if format hard drive doesn't work
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You can download a software from\nwww.softpedia.com\nIt will retreive your files back
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With PC Inspector File Recovery