There are lot of ways you can examine a hard drive and see if any of it’s data is recoverable. With little time and the right tools( also a little care) you may be able to extract recover data out off of your damaged hard drive.
Step One: Gather Your Tools To Examine The Drive’s Condition
Step Two: Get A Data Recovery Software
- TestDisk (Win/OS X/Linux, Free): If you’re not afraid of the command line, TestDisk is an open source utility that can run against almost any platform or partition type. It does a great job of recovering data quickly, and won’t do unnecessary writes against the drive you’re trying to recover from.
- You can use the software of your own choice but make sure it is a popular and trust worthy one.
- What is your Favorite Data recovery tool ? Comment below