Comments on: Recover emails, files, and data from a crashed hard drive or computer

By: Woody Polglase

Woody Polglase — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:50:08 +0000

Hi,
Will this screw up my warranty?
Or any other type of accidental damage package…ect.
Thanks

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:58:47 +0000

Why not get an e-mail address from Google, Yahoo or MSN and e-mail them to yourself. I have both a MAC and a PC. My new MAC though dual boots and I can run Windows on it as well.

By: kishore

kishore — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:11:18 +0000

plssssssss tell me to this questions???

when disk is crashed can you move the datafiles to another location?

By: Declan Mc

Declan Mc — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:55:16 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the advice, I have removed 2 x 2.5 sata drives from my old Dell laptop running vista, and placed them in to a HDD reader, when I power it up, the laptop im using (again a Dell running vista) it tells me one of the disks needs to be formatted before I can use it and the 2nd although it installs the drivers will not show. I’m almost at my wits end, and anyone with any advice would be much appreciated. Im not overly tech but I can find my way around most of the time…

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:19:45 +0000

Good advice for recovering data from a non-bootable hard disk. I tend to put the hard drive into another computer rather than an external drive case. you can get SATA-IDE/EIDE converters and even converters to put Laptop hard drives into computers for data recovery.

The mantra is Backup Backup Backup!! to reduce the liklihood of having to do such a data recovery exercise. for hard disk that are not detected, you are unlikely to retrieve any data, unless you send it to a specialist data recovery company ($$$). There are freeware software tools that can read your hard drive and potentially recover deleted files – but they are hit n miss.

Thanks for an interesting article.

Steve

By: Trisha

Trisha — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:38:25 +0000

Hello,

My HP g7-1260us I bought 6 weeks ago crashed. I took it to office depot where I bought it from and they tried to put the hard drive in a reader hoping I could retrieve my data but the tech guy said the reader was not evening acknowledging the hard drive was placed. He mentioned taking it to a computer repair place and they could possibly get it fixed enough to pull data from it. Is this possible or because his reader didn’t even acknowledge the disk is it toast and I should stop wasting my time?

By: Manish

Manish — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 06:14:47 +0000

Hi, Mitz How ru ?

I have an WDC external hardisk of 500 Gb. it is detecting n it drive is show in my computer. But whn i go it from disk management it partion show nil status mns without any Fat32 or NTFS. n whn i click on the hardisk is show Din’t access.
I want to recover the data from my Harddisk. Can u Give me the software link so that i can download it and recover the data from my HDD. so plse do the needful to give me the recover soft to recover my all data.

Thanks Waiting for ur positive reply

By: Mitz

Mitz — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:57:36 +0000

hi there
If you put your hard drive back in the other computer what do you see? Also are you sure you did not format the entire drive deleting all other partitions too? I always only format one partition and if you have only chosen c: drive and none of the others then it should be right.. So you much have chose C drive, deleted the partition, recreated it, and then formatted to add the OS..

By: Bablu

Bablu — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:50:09 +0000

I had a problem with my hard disk . I took my hard disk and connected it to the other computer as the secondary hard disk along with that computers hard disk. Firstly my hard disk booted properly and chkdsk was done and opened the 4 partitions in my hard drive . So as my hard drive is not booting in my computer i just formatted manually the C: Drive which contains the Operating system files. Now my hard disk doesnt contain OS files at all . C:\ drive is fully empty now but i had data in the other drives. I detached my hard drive from the comp n connnected it to my comp. But here i m able to prepare a set up OS. Now i want data present in my hard disk(3 drives).
I m sure how to recover it. IS it possible to recover the data. If yes , please help with the answers.

Thank you in advance.
Quick response is appreciated.

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:10:19 +0000

Hey Mitz, thanks for the info. I have a strange situation. One bad laptop with good disk (vista home basic) and one good laptop with win7 home premium. I’ve connected the vista disk with a usb 2.0 connector and weirdly, the good laptop only mounts the D partition, not the boot partition “C.” I figured it would at least rename the C partition and present it in disk management. No go. Any ideas? I have verified that the boot partition is still good. (The old laptop can still boot the OS – just the video is so smacked I can just barely make out the login prompt. Thus new laptop).Any thoughts are appreciated!