Like any other electronic device, laptops are prone to malfunctions which can at times catch you unaware. If you are not very conversant with computer software and hardware malfunctions you may be a bit scared about losing your files or valuable data. If you find yourself in this situation, here are some tips about laptop hard drive recovery.
The first way you can easily recover the data in your hard drive is by transforming it into an external portable drive. You can easily achieve this by dissembling your laptop and obtaining its hard disk from it and purchasing a casing and a data cable for it. The main important thing you ought to do is ensure that the disk enclosure you purchase is compatible with your laptop’s disk. The common ones include SATA 2.5 and 3.5 and the SSD hard disk enclosures. The cable connects to USB ports, and you can easily read the data in the hard disk with another laptop or computer as it acts as an external storage device. You can also read the data by connecting the hard disk to a universal adapter or by simply connecting it to another computer that works.
The second way you can recover your data is by connecting your laptop to an external computer. This allows you to copy all the files from your laptops internal hard disk to the desktops internal storage space. You have to ensure that you have enough space in the desktop computer for it to accommodate the data if it is a large amount. You can also set the desktop to check the hard disk through the computer BIOS IDE configuration or CMOS settings and manually change the four settings to auto-detection from master and slave drive.
If you own a MAC computer and having this problem, it is easy to access your computer’s hard disk files through another MAC computer. This is achieved through a firewire cable compatible to your MAC computer. To get the relevant information from your MAC computer, you can click the apple logo, then click on About this MAC and finally click on system information. You then have to prepare another MAC computer and connect them both using the firewire cable and copy the data from the dead hard drive. Ensure that you have enough storage space in the working mac computer for the success of this process. To read your data in the working laptop, you have to restart it first. Ensure that you don’t interrupt the connection as the recovery process proceeds. With the above tips, it will be easy for you to recover the data in your dead laptop. See more options here.
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