Can You Fix a Bad Hard Drive?

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Tip 1 - How to repair a dead hard drive

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Robin Sieger | permalink

Recover your hard drive: it's easier and cheaper than you think

For further reading: http://www.techradar.com/us/news/computing-components/storage/how-to-repair-a-dead-hard-drive-1037695 ^[1]

Tip 2 - How To Diagnose And Fix A Dead Hard Drive To Recover Data

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Roy Berkowitz | permalink

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…

For further reading: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-diagnose-and-fix-a-dead-hard-drive-to-recover-data/ ^[2]

Tip 3 - Raising the dead: Can a regular person repair a damaged hard drive? | ExtremeTech

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Joel Sherr | permalink

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.

For further reading: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/133294-raising-the-dead-can-a-regular-person-repair-a-damaged-hard-drive ^[3]

Tip 4 - How to Fix a Physically Broken Hard Drive

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Daniel 56 | permalink

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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For further reading: http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Physically-Broken-Hard-Drive ^[4]

Tip 5 - How to Recover a Dead Hard Disk

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by tony foxhoven | permalink

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...
Tags: WikiHow, Recover a Dead Hard Disk, wiki, how to articles, how to instructions, DIY, tips, howto, learn, how do I

For further reading: http://www.wikihow.com/Recover-a-Dead-Hard-Disk ^[5]

Tip 6 - How to repair hard drive errors and bad sectors?

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Bart Kuster | permalink

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

For further reading: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1795054/repair-hard-drive-errors-bad-sectors.html ^[6]

Tip 7 - How to Recover Data When Your Hard Drive Goes Belly Up

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Paul St Amour | permalink

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.
Tags: Data, Recovery, Data Recovery, Drives, Hard Drives, DIY, How To, Guest Post, Republished, Top, Lifehacker

For further reading: http://lifehacker.com/5982339/diy-data-recovery-tricks-for-when-your-hard-drive-goes-belly-up ^[7]