Anyone know if it's possible to recover data of a hard drive? My computer won't boot up and I'm 90% sure its the hard drive, like a nob I haven't backed up any of my fishing photos, think I will cry if I can't get them back lol!
9 times out of ten you can still recover the data of the hard drive.
Generally the data will still be stored on the drive even if your pc does not boot up.
A few ways of sorting this.
1. Need to take the hard drive out of that pc. And to attach the drive to another pc via a external connection cable.
2. Try and recover the OS and see if it boots into the system then recover the data straight away.
Don't take it to PC world. They will charge you a small fortune and probably muck it up anyway.
Don't take it the wrong way but your welcome to sort out a secure postage to my work place and I can have a look for you. I have worked in IT support in education for quite a few years, so this type of work is normal.
I will buy another drive, I'm quite computer minded but neve come up against a hard drive failure before, would local computer shops be able to sort it?
I will buy another drive any recommendations?
I'm quite computer minded but never come up against a hard drive failure before, would local computer shops be able to sort it? Ain't fussed about anything else I just need my pictures
Just goes tO the safe mode, safe networking and restart in normal mode(along those lines) if I select any of them it goes to load windows then just restarts!
Alternative would be to use a Linux live cd of some form which is essentially an operating system in a CD which will run on your machine and you can access the hard disk via that and recover any files you need onto something external.
An error message did come up something along the lines of hard drive stopped working then I reset system then this happened?
Also something comes up on start up but I will have to have a look tomorrow!