How To Recover Files From Hard Disk Crash
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkTuesday, February 13, 2007
My desktop computers hard-disk crashed today morning without any warning. The S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics showed perfect health all along. One of the 128 GB partition of a newly purchased Barracuda drive (from Seagate) is not showing any files. In fact whenever I click on it Windows 2000 it is asking me if I want to format it. Even the NTFS is not being recognized.
I tried to recover the files using a freeware tool. The file names are showing but the recovered file doesn’t contain any data.
I would very much appreciate any tools / utilities you can point me to which will help me recover some critical files from the hard-disk crash.
For the next time… there will be no next time. I am purchasing 8 computers to backup everything - 2 for internet connectivity (with hot backup), 2 for file server (RAID 1), 2 for database server (hot backup) and 1 additional for QA and 1 for order processing. As I said there will be no next time But this time, I would very much appreciate any guidance.
Tags: Fact, Hard Disk Crash Recovery
July 29, 2010: 1:00 pm
Use the safe boot cd like APE CD you can able to retrieve the data.I try and able to recover the whole data from my hard disk |
July 20, 2010: 8:13 am
I was trying to remove my hard disk form my desk top computer this morning, I was taking it to a friends place for partitioning. I did not meet my freind so I brought it back, I fixed it and it is no lobger working, What shloud I do to it, I have a feeling that it has crushed and if so how can I rocover my files because they are very important to me. |
ADITYA |
Gloria |
February 5, 2010: 8:32 am
My hard disk cannot be detected by any system, how can I recover my files from the hard disk. |
Deborah Wendt |
July 23, 2009: 1:44 pm
My computer crahsed and I installed a new hard drive. Now the McAfee antivirus that I had, I no longer have. Do I have to purchase new? Or how can I get it back - since I already paid? Thanks. |
Karen |
April 25, 2009: 8:57 pm
My hard drive has crashed. Unfortunately, I did not back up for a month and a half. I have a “Clickfree” desktop backup system. I also have a 3rd party program but it did not back the information for this system up for some reason. It is really bad-3 years lost. I need to do anything I can to get the information off my hard drive. My problem is, it is dead. It will not even spin. Does anyone know a way that I can retrieve the information on the drive? |
sarah liza lucanas |
November 25, 2008: 12:58 am
my hard disk cannot be detected how could i recover my files on my hard disk? |
Patrick |
April 17, 2008: 6:02 am
Hi! My hard-disk crashed and now I used the old hard disk as a mobile harddisk after I installed a new harddisk… How do I recover all my emails and addresses from my Outlook 2007? I could not do the suggested export, since the harddisk crashed…. |
Pamela |
November 28, 2007: 12:42 pm
SpinRite 6.0 for Windows XP (NTFS), Takes anywhere from 12 to 22 hours to run but worth every hour, every minute, every second. |
February 13, 2007: 8:57 pm
Thanks for all your ideas. I will try them today and let you know how it goes. |
HdWiz |
February 13, 2007: 3:27 pm
Mounting disk images in Linux (howto): |
HdWiz |
HdWiz |
February 13, 2007: 3:15 pm
Buy a cheap usb hard disk (LaCie 250GB or similar) and build a copy of the drive (disk image) on that with a cd bootable linux distro like https://www.sysresccd.org/ . You can build the image with dd_rhelp , https://www.kalysto.org/utilities/dd_rhelp/index.en.html |
mohan kumar