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In this example we are going to show a recovery ‘in the field’ by connecting a good USB external drive and externally connecting the ‘bad’ drive via a USB adapter to a Compaq Presario 2200 laptop named Buster. That means we have to be as efficient as possible in our recovery efforts.

How do they get their data from a crashing or unbootable drive?Ī broken hard drive isn’t just ‘broken’ it is almost always still in the process of ‘breaking’ and everything we do to it is going to make it worse. Disk diagnostics programs either crash, show errors on the disk or don’t run at all.Īt this point the user realizes that they need to completely re-install Windows (and hopefully, but not always, understand that they need to replace the hard drive). In many cases, the computer will not boot to Windows at all and none of the repair options will seem to work. You may also start to notice sounds from the hard drive that you have not heard before. Often as a hard drive begins to go ‘bad’ you start to get strange errors in programs and your computer occassionally shuts down with a blue screen error. We will be looking at Windows (FAT and NTFS) filesystems.

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In this series we’ll look at some real world examples of disastrous situations salvaged and made better again. I take no responsibility for anything you do based on my examples or the information that I provide here. If you try them yourself, it might cause damage or irreparable loss. Part 4 Recover Files From a Bad Hard DriveĭISCLAIMER: These examples use techniques that I actually employ in the real world to deal with real problems.

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