How do you recover data from a dead hard drive?

Answer 1

This is not impossible but very expensive. How it works is a recovery expert would take apart your hard drive then take an image of the HD disk inside. They would then use a recovery program to try and get back as many files as they can. They can also take the disk in your old HD and load them in another active hard drive that has no disk. As you can see this gets very expensive and only corporations that have lost very important data can afford this. Either way it is possible. Another note, sometimes a hard drive that dies can still be a slave. Slave it and master another hard drive and try to get your files back that way.

Answer 2

If the hard drive doesn't spin up the only solution is to send it to someone to get the data extracted (big $$)

If the hard drive just won't work sometimes or something liek that you may be interested in messing with it using Linux. I have had many "dead" drives with data that i recovered by tinkering with them using Linux. Google up knoppix if you want to play with the idea.

Answer 3

I have heard stories about putting the drive in a freezer for a while, then pop it in the computer and it may be readable for a while, but I cannot recommend it.

Data recovery is best l;eft to the professionals, and it is very expensive. They have to maintain a clean room to take the disk apart in, and if the heads have scraped the oxide off the platters, your data is on little shavings inside the disk.

Answer 4

You'll probably have to go to a computer repair to get the data recovered. I think...maybe...

Answer 5

As far as I know if it's dead, you can't. In the future, I suggest saving documents, pictures and music files, to other storage places, other then the computer. Such as flash drives, CD, or online storage for files and pictures. Because you never know when your computer will crash.

Answer 6

you cant