![]() ![]() If you format the drive or write any data to this drive, you’ll make recovery difficult or impossible. Connect the drive to your computer using the USB-to-SATA adapter and power it on, but DO NOT FORMAT THE DRIVE WHEN PROMPTED! This is very important.Rather than covering all of that in this tutorial, I’m going to cover the scenario where we have TestDisk downloaded to a running Windows 7 computer and the failed drive hooked up to it using a USB-to-SATA adapter. Typically the base distro for most of these livecd’s is debian linux. Ideally you’d create yourself a live boot flashdrive or CD/DVD (instructions here) and boot off of that livecd with just the failed drive in your computer but this may require some knowledge of Linux/Unix. Watch ‘n learn – Crash course videos showing how to retrieve data from a hard drive with a corrupted partition table: Testdisk from CGSecurity – freely available data recovery software. ![]() If the drive is detected, but Windows thinks that it needs to be formatted, you may be in luck. One of the easiest ways to determine this is to attach the drive using a USB to SATA adapter to a working PC running Windows and see what happens. There are also, however, some ways a drive may suddenly appear as failed but still have data that is in tact and recoverable. If the disk fails to spin up, makes loud grinding noises, clicks continuously, chances are good the disk is too damaged for this guide to be helpful. There are lots of ways a hard disk can fail that pose significant hurdles for recovering any data. I’m not going to go into the reasons why hard drives fail, but I’ll cover some types of disk failure because understanding them will help determine if any data can likely be recovered from your failed drive. It comes with absolutely no guarantees or warranties, however the procedure has helped me recover data in cases where others believed all data to be completely lost. ![]() This is my guide for recovering data off of a damaged hard drive.
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