jecoul Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Ok so the other night my laptop came up with a message stating that there was a hard drive failure detected and to back up immediately. I did so but took hours and not sure it backed up properly as the largest file in the folder is only about 5 GB Anyhow I have pulled the hard drive out the laptop and put it in an external hard drive enclosure. Unfortunately it is not being picked up or recognised. Are there any tools that I can download to retrieve the data or any other suggestions. I have alot of work on there that is important along with photos of my kids growing up. Please please help. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Try the free version of Recuva http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download, but if the H/D is not recognised you may have lost everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jecoul Posted October 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Try the free version of Recuva http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download, but if the H/D is not recognised you may have lost everything. OK, I will pretend I didn't read the last bit for now. lol. Does Recuva recover all types of files I heard it just recovered photos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 You may wish to read this ?http://www.piriform.com/recuva/features Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Have you tried the freezer trick. http://lifehacker.com/5515337/save-a-failed-hard-drive-in-your-freezer-redux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Have you tried the freezer trick. http://lifehacker.com/5515337/save-a-failed-hard-drive-in-your-freezer-redux AFAIK, this only worked on drives with old fashioned ball bearings. With modern drives more failures arise because the readable/writable layer flakes off the glass platter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda5059 Posted October 16, 2013 Report Share Posted October 16, 2013 Maybe you can try Remo Recover program, but you have to make sure your hard drive can be recognized. If not, you have to send it to a professional data recovery company, or you will lost all your files. You can read this article at first, hope this can help you: http://drm-assistant.com/datarescue/recovering-photos-from-nikon-cameras-with-ease.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jecoul Posted October 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2013 Ok great thank you for all your help I will see what I can do. I have everything crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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