How to recover data from a failed notebook hard drive.

A step by step tutorial on how to recover data from a failed notebook hard drive.

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[vamosm]

If the hard drive itself has failed, how does this solution work? Obviously if a motherboard or other piece of hardware (save for the HD) fails, this works well. But if one is unable to boot into windows because the drive is unreadable, does this solution have a chance to work?  I'm hoping the answer is yes in my case, but fear that it won't.

[jsen6482]

@vamosm well sometimes your HD can fail and you cant boot windows but if you put the failed HD in an enclosure and hook it up to a working machine you can retrieve your files, documents from the hard drive. If for instance your hard drive isnt spinning or the records are damaged you might be out of luck safe from having some forensic data recovery done which can be very costly...good luck

[NotInYourLife001]

I have spent the last 15 hours in front of my old laptop trying to recover data from my failing notebook hard drive and all I have gotten so far is Error23 notices. It's only a 160 GB hard drive yet the GetDataBack program reads it as a 2TB drive. I'm starting to get a little frustrated here that I have wasted all this time for nothing. Any suggestions or should I keep waiting for the next 3 days until this thing finishes? Honestly, I just don't have the time to wait or patience at this point.:(

[jsen6482]

@NotInYourLife001 I'd try and tough it out. You can always try a different data recovery software and see if that helps you out....

[evilzpet]

Can I recover data from a hard drive with Windows XP using a computer with Windows 7?

[jsen6482]

@RogerLSanchez Thanks! Glad it helped you!

[RogerLSanchez]

@jsen6482 Great info - and no, your videography (not 'videograph') techniques aren't hindering the 'value' of the video whatsoever: it's YouTube.com: IT'S FREE INFO...This is excusable because I'm a person (as is everyone else) interested in free help: I chose to just turn up the volume during the low audio - absolutely no big deal since I was still able to learn something from you (hence the 'intended value' is still there) - This is the 1st vid that solved my issue, so thanks a ton : )

[jj99887766]

hey my seagate laptop hard drive is not spinning and is beeping, will this method still work? Or does that mean its time try forensic data recovery?

[xTheUnknownTruthx]

@jsen6482 Good post, thanks for the info. Sorry Unidene02 is a troll! Don't listen to trolls (:

[BENZQUEEN19]

Does the data recovery software you've recommended have to be purchased? Or is it free? Do you know of any that are free that actually work? I downloaded one that was free and it only was able to FIND my data, not recover it.

[kiolee]

will it work on an unregonized hard drive?

[NotInYourLife001]

@jsen6482 Thanks for all the help but after running the program with both FAT and NTFS formats neither one was able to find anything and all other programs couldn't read the drive. So unfortunately, Geek Squad here I come. Great... Just what I wanted to prevent. :p