Dead Hard Drive Data Recovery At Home.

Asked By Eaan Rickchard 10 points N/A Posted on - 09/20/2016

How to recover data from the dead hard drive at home? What is the data recovery software that one can use for free to recover the data?

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Answered By J Anderson 15 points N/A #169555

Dead Hard Drive Data Recovery At Home.

If there is logical failure, you can follow these instructions to recover data:

1. Remove the hard drive from the computer.

2. Check the hard drive in other secondary computer using USB universal drive adapter.

3. Check what data is recoverable using diagnostic tool.

4. If the result is positive, then use any data recovery software to recover data.

A. paid software: Prosoft’s Data Rescue PC, Ontrack Easy Recovery and Recover My Files.

B. unpaid software: Recuva, Wise Data Recovery, and MiniTool Power Data Recovery.

5. Choose the dead drive as the source and the target as the folder where you want to recover data. 6. Wait for it to complete.

NOTE: Don’t install data recovery software on the dead hard drive.

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