Can I open and repair bad hdd?
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By opening the hard drive you would render it unusable.\n\nIn response to one of the answers below.  No, you cannot repair a bad HDD with software.  Software can cause the damanged areas to become inaccessible - virtually repairing the disk, but not physically.
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QUICKLY SALVAGE THE HARD DRIVE!!!\n\nGO FOR THE HARD DRIVE!!!!!\n\nFASTER!!!!!!
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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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You can repair damage to the filesystem (corrupted files) but corrupted sectors (bad media on the hard disk itself) is not something you can fix. If you really have bad sectors on your disk, it's probably time to buy a new one. Unless you don't care about losing files to silent corruption as the condition of your hard disk begins to worsen. That being said, there are utilities out there that can possibly recover corrupted files, or at least the uncorrupted parts of the file.
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JUst change the HDD with another brand type HDD. Try Western Digital, they are pretty good at hard drives.
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sorry man....but only an Ablolute Disk Sector reader program can read your disk now.....and it will need to be run from a DIFFERENT hard drive....\n\nContact a 'data recovery' professional, but you may find the cost to not be worth it.  several hundreds of dollars US.
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Replace the hard drive, if it fixes the problem then you know that they hard drive was messed up, if not, then you got a whole different problem...Good Luck.
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About the only way would be to use a data recovery program.\n\nPC Inspector Smart Recovery is free and very good at recovering files. \n\nYou can get it here - http://www.download.com/PC-Inspector-Smart-Recovery/3000-2242_4-10261986.html?tag=lst-0-1\n\nI believe it will do the job for you.
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if it's the hardDisk pasword, You're stuffed! I don't think you can install a new Hd either!\nIf its just the power on password, hold F8 while booting up and reset it in the Bios.
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Not easily.\n\nYour best bet would be a professional data recovery firm - it'll be kind of pricey, so only do it if the data is really important.\n\nIf you were handy with a soldering iron, you could buy a new, identical flash drive, open the case, take off the memory chip, solder on the one from your broken drive, and hope it works long enough to get your data off.\n\nGood luck
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majorgeeks website has a few utilities that may help you under their data recovery section.......try it :-)
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try checking ur disk by using chkdsk on ur drive \nor alternatively have the recovery console for that operatign system
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Try running checkdisk on it.  If that doesn't work, it's probably not going to open.
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just try cloning the hdd by having them both in the same box and running ghost. then it's a 1 step deal and less foulable. should make a direct copy thats usable. be sure the proper jumper is selected on the new drive when you install it to be the primary boot device (a common oversight)
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Sure. Software like OnTrack can replace your data in a heartbeat. It can recover data even if the drive has been formatted many times. If you don't want to buy OnTrack, find a local computer shop. Most good ones have it.
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that depends how you lost it. if your hard drive was formated you don't have any chance to retreive it. if the data was erased you can use a HDD data recovery program such as Recovery Genius. but you won't be able to recover it if it was overwritten on the Hdd.
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I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.\nSome RAM/hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in  useful. Try this site, if you can get what is required.