Contrary to popular belief, if a computer does not start due to corruption of hard disk all the data is lost and the hard drive can also be repaired. There are two types of hard drive damage. One is solved by you and the other requires a professional data recovery.
Drive physical damage - Physical damage is the worst. Data recovery can only be done by professionals and can cost up to $ 1,500 (sometimeshigher). Physical damage is usually actuator arms hurt, damaged or controller cards fried dishes.
No physical damage Drive - Physical Damage-(NPD) is what we discuss in this article. NPD occurs when the operating system's file system (FAT or NTFS) is damaged by an improper shutdown (for example). Although this may seem really bad damage (if prevents you from booting your PC) is easily solved with some software that is already in any Windows PC and a USB external hard drive enclosure.
Here is a list of items that you must follow these instructions:
Another computer running Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7
Find out what type of hard drive you have. There are two types. SATA (small flat connector) and PATA (aka IDE), which has an approximately 30-pin connector. An external USB hard drive enclosure with a connector for the type of> Unit that you are going to be connecting to it (you can grab one of these at BestBuy for about $ 50 USD).
Please follow the following steps to perform a non-physical repair (repair software) on a hard drive bootable.
1. Take the drive from the computer.
2. Connect the hard drive to the USB connector on the container.
3. Connect a USB cable from the local to the computer that works.
4. Turn on the USB enclosure.
5. Aexternal drive probably upload your list of hard drives. You can view the list by opening "My Computer" or "computers." Take note of the drive letter for external hard drive.
6. Now is the time to load a program called CHKDSK (Check Disk).
7. Click Start (if you're on Windows XP) or click the Windows world (at the bottom left for Vista and Windows 7).
8. On Windows XP, click Run, type CMD. Windows Vista and 7 of typeCMD where it says "Search for programs and files. This will open a black command prompt window.
9. In the command prompt, type chkdsk "the drive letter you want to control": / r press enter. So here is an example chkdsk g: / r and press Enter.
10. This process can take hours. I had a couple that took days.
11th. If this command completed successfully the unit must be repaired enough for you to retrieve data from it and you might actually be able to boot fromagain.
A word of warning. If the drive ever errors on it (bad sectors) has finished its life and must be replaced soon. You will be able to see this in the report sent to the chkdsk command at the end of its scan.
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