How Do You Do Data Recovery After Hard Drive Failure?
Here’s how to do data recovery after hard drive failure. First you want to find out if you have an actual hard drive failure. Turn off the computer and start Microsoft Windows in Safe Mode (hit F8 at startup, then hit 3), and if you can get through, then your problem is not hardware based, but software based. You’ll need to do a system restore or reinstall Windows to get things back to how they were. This is especially important to try if you recently installed some software. PCs are notorious for having unforeseen random problems with certain programs, like mixing medicines randomly. If you can’t get through to your login screen in Safe Mode, you may have a true hard drive failure and you will need to take more drastic data recovery steps. The first thing you want to try is Testdisk, a disk analyzation program that can forego the need for even more drastic data recovery methods. Testdisk is shareware. The link is below. If Testdisk doesn’t work, TOKIWA is your next option. TOKIWA is a
