I have replaced the drive and reinstalled everything so I have a healthy system. Now I want to recover my email, photos and other stuff from the failed drive.
I only have one SATA port (Dell Optiplex 170L) so I was thinking of getting an enclosure SATA to USB, making my bad drive an external USB drive... and try to recover the data.
My question is, will the bad blocks prevent me from reading the data on the drive? Will I need special recovery software?
Has anybody out there tried to do this? My googles have produced less than satisfying results... lack of details.
2007-05-19 07:20:33 · 1 answers · asked by ideapathic 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Unless your data is located on those "bad blocks" you should be able to access them and simply copy them to your new C:\ drive as long as your PC recognizes the "external" old drive.
2007-05-19 07:30:54 · answer #1 · answered by Dick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on what sector unrecoverable from your SATA. If the disk could be reboot to any stage, it means that file system and boot record is still good and you can get a USB/SATA enclosure to try.
Be very cautious to software recovery. Make sure it can identify USB based driver. That is the key
2007-05-19 14:43:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋