Can You Fix a Bad Hard Drive?

Several years ago, I experienced a hard drive failure. I was at work when my laptop suddenly started to act particularly strange. First, I thought it was because I had too many windows open and the RAM was full, but when the problems persisted after a reboot, I knew it was more than that. I…

Having a hard drive die without warning will ruin anyone's day. It certainly ruined mine -- but here's what I learned about data recovery in the process of trying to fix my own hardware.

If it's an inconvenience when your system crashes, it's a disaster when your hard drive heads south. Usually, that means your data is destroyed and your bits are blasted—unless you backed up, of course. But is your drive really dead, or j...
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Your hard drive just stopped working. It never made any odd sounds like screeching, popping, or clicking, and it didn't crash. It just quit and it has some priceless data that isn't backed up to another device. This guide may help you...
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I have just done a disk check for hard drive errors because I just got done talking to eMachines support about my slow computer issue, the issue was that I had bad hard drive errors and bad sectors th

Imagine this: you're busy working on your computer and need to access documents saved on your external hard drive. You connect it, get ready to find your data, and...nothing happens. Your hard drive isn't working. Uh oh. Before you panic, there are several things you can try on your own before calling in the pros.
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