How To Recover Lost Data from Your Hard Drive
Step 1: Connect the Hard Drive to Another Computer USB to IDE-SATA hard drive connector Before you can do any work on the crashed drive you will need to remove it from the current machine (unless it is an external drive that has crashed) and connect it to another machine as a secondary drive. The best way to do this is to buy and use a USB to IDE/SATA adapter . This is the cheapest multi-functional USB 3 option and I prefer USB 3 because it is a lot faster. If you don’t have one available then you may be able to connect the drive to another desktop computer internally as a secondary drive, though this means pulling apart another computer to install the crashed drive. If you do, make sure that the machine detects the drive in the BIOS or you won’t be able to access it once the computer starts up. Step 2: Try to Copy the Data to Another Drive After you connect the drive to another computer either internally or with the USB adapter, check to see if you ca...