How can you recover data on a hard drive that crashed?
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That depends on how it crashed. Plug it in as a slave drive and see if you find it in my computer. If its there, open it and copy the files you want. If windows doesnt see it, the unit has crashed mechanically and the only hope is to pay someone out the bum to retrieve the info. This may not even work when all is said and done.
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go to recovermyfiles.com and buy the software.... you should be able to recover everything.
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Use file recovery softwares...
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Ontrack's Easy Recovery Pro.\nI use this for even catastrophic data recovery.
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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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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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Hi,\n\nYou will need a file recovery program. Here are a few that are free.
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open start menu then programs then accessories then system tools then u will find the backup tool there. back up the part that you want into a safe place on your harddisk or u can burn it into a cd or dvd. or you can a program that makes an image of your hard disk like norton ghost so all u need in case of crash is restore the fresh copy that you have
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You need to reformat, if you loose any data it can be recovered with this\nhttp://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/\n\nFirst put in your OS disk, load the OS by creating a new partition.
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There is a software called Easy recovery that has tools for testing the mechanical and logical functions of any hard drive.  You need another hard drive if you are going to attemp any data recovery though.  Check the website.
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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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majorgeeks website has a few utilities that may help you under their data recovery section.......try it :-)
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go to www.iolo.com\n\nyou can download the trial version of Search and Recover, and you might be able to retrieve these files.
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You could however use a disk wipe program that would make it next to impossible to get data back.\nlink:\nhttp://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,22920-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html\n\nI think that is the way you would want to go, the charity gets a complete  computer and you have a high level of security.\n\n\n\nThe only sure way to protect your data is to take out the drive.\nalmost all files after a normal format can be recovered with minimal effort.
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Try Any Good Data Recovery Softwear(Recover My File).
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Easy recovery professional and other data recovery software can recover data from hard drive.\n\nbut for that hard drive should be in detectable condition and media of disk should be readable for having a little damage drive in working condition try putting it in freezer for 1 or 2.
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First you should check what are the files in good condition on your hard disk.\nconnect your hard disk having data to be recovered as a slave disk, (taking out the tiny plastic connector inserted above the pins behind the hard disk, and then connecting the hard disk to a slot available in the computer will automatically configure it as a slave disk) Then you have to see if it is recognized in the bios. If you are able to connect the hard disk as a slave disk, then you willl see C,D,E,F etc partitions on the computer. They are mixed. C belongs to one hard disk, and D to other. So you have to open the partition to identify which hard disk it belongs to)\n\nCheck all the partitions and then copy any data found immediately on cd/dvd. \n\nIf you do not find what you were looking for on the hard disk, the you can try it with a file recovery software.\nBelow is a link of free file recovery software. You have to install it on a different hard disk having windows, (Do not install the software/any software on the same hard disk that you want to recover data from. Installation of a new program will wipe out previous data present on the  hard disk)\nand \nInstructions of use are given in the help files with the programs.\nFree file recovery software PC Inspector\nhttp://download.pcinspector.de/pci_filerecovery.exe\n\nOnce you run the program to check for lost files on the disk you specify. \nYou will see a list of files on the screen. All the files will have lost their names, and given arbitrary names with numbers. You have to identify the file that you want to get back by its file extension. If you want to get back a photo, then look for files with extensions bmp,jpg/jpeg,tiff,gif etc. \nOnce you locate the file then you can click on it and press the appropriate button to retrieve it back to your desktop.\n\n(Read the help files provided with the pc-inspector program)