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Hard Drive appears to have failed

Stinicker · 2013-04-04 14:44:11

I got a computer and the hard drive seems to have failed, Windows was not booting and would not boot into safe mode etc. My initial suspicion is a failed hard drive. I just removed the Hard Drive now and put it in the dock and I'm just getting an option to format it from Windows. I choose not to format it naturally but I…

04-04-2013 2:44pm

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Stinicker

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I got a computer and the hard drive seems to have failed, Windows was not booting and would not boot into safe mode etc. My initial suspicion is a failed hard drive.

I just removed the Hard Drive now and put it in the dock and I'm just getting an option to format it from Windows. I choose not to format it naturally but I am just wondering if it would be bad sectors etc. as I'd like to try recover the data.

Any ideas??

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#2 04-04-2013 2:58pm

Torqay

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Stinicker wrote: »

I am just wondering if it would be bad sectors

If you're lucky, it's just a shot partition table. If so, EaseUS Partition Recovery should be able to do the job.

If you want to test the drive for bad sectors, use HD Tune.

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