subject: HOW TO RECOVER FILES FROM A CRASHED HARD DISK [print this page] Files in our daily work of life is very important as information worth billions of US dollars and more can be saved on a piece of word or spreadsheet package stored in a retrieval device like flash drive, hard disk or online system.
Accessing ones file(s) is the basic of saving or storing it onto a removable or fixed drive but the down time of these is when the device is crashed or damaged thereby denying one access to his files as the system disk won't boot due to the bad or damaged platters on the drive but never worry as i have outlined below a step by step procedures for you to recover back your files as long as the drive is still detectable by any computer system.
As a computer engineer and also writing from experience the basic ways for you to recover back your files here, is by pairing the drive to a working system which is the method i will discuss here.
Let's get started:
Firstly identified the crashed drive by removing it from the system after turning off and unplugging it from wall outlet source.
Get the necessary drive connector as for an I.D.E or S.A.T.A drive either a desktop or laptop hard drive.
Attach the connector to the crashed drive, in a case of desktop hard drive set the jumper connector to slave mode.
Connect the other end of the connector to a working system with updated anti-virus program.
Start and run the operating system of the working system and allow it to fully boot up and detect the drive.
Navigate to the crashed drive from the my computer interface, you can scan for virus first or skip the process if you have a good and updated anti-virus program installed.
Open and move to the destination folder you have your files, copy it to a folder on the working system drive.
Shut down the system and disconnect the drive device from the system.
You now have your files back in the working system.
Note: If a drive is crashed, it's not the end of drives as files can be copy from and unto the drive but it can't be used the primary storage device as it operating system program won't install on it.
In the case of a damaged or corrupted hard drive that cannot be access by the system but still detected, one is left with only the alternative of formatting the disk and making use of a recovery software to recover back the lost data files, even though that is more technical and time consuming.
