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My one year old laptop Asus after updating its ultimate windows 7 OS and restarting it , a blue death screen appeared,,,tried copule of restarting same error message.
Then tried : Safe Mode ,,,,,tried : last good configuration,,,,,,,,,,nothing work.
Removed the hard drive which is Segate 500 GB from Asus laptop and connected via USB cable to my desktop,,,the error message that was presented : You need to format the disk before using it.
Tried that on another laptop (Dell) same error message : You need to format the disk before using it.
External hard drive is not showing in the computer management means it is not recognized as an external storage therefore I won't be able to use any third party program to recover the files before formatting it
What should I do to recover the files and data from my Asus hard drive before formatting it ?
Put the drive back into the original laptop.
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Make a bootable CD with it, and boot to it on the original laptop.
Go through the tools and try to repair the problem first. If no luck, simply try to view the file system and see if you can see the files, that way you can plug in an external and transfer them over. Finally, try the recovery tools if necessary.
As far as which tool to use and how to use it, you're gonna have to do some googling, but there's likely going to be something on that boot cd that will help you, assuming the drive is salvageable at all, which I suspect it is, given that you're getting an option to format it.
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Strangely enough, I've managed to recover data from a friend's unreadable hard drive by using a Linux LiveCD ... in my case a copy of Linux Mint 11. It was able to read the damaged NTFS filesystem even though Windows XP couldn't see any directories or files on that hard drive at all, and I was able to copy those files to a second hard drive where Windows was then able to read them.
That's a fairly simple operation. Download the ISO image of Linux Mint, burn it to a CD, put it in the drive, and boot. You may have to change your PC's BIOS options to allow booting from a CD before the hard drive.
Strangely enough, I've managed to recover data from a friend's unreadable hard drive by using a Linux LiveCD ... in my case a copy of Linux Mint 11. It was able to read the damaged NTFS filesystem even though Windows XP couldn't see any directories or files on that hard drive at all, and I was able to copy those files to a second hard drive where Windows was then able to read them.
That's a fairly simple operation. Download the ISO image of Linux Mint, burn it to a CD, put it in the drive, and boot. You may have to change your PC's BIOS options to allow booting from a CD before the hard drive.
I was able to do the same, on numerous occasions, simply using ERD commander's file browser. (Back when it was called ERD Commander)
The point we're both making, though, is that there are many different approaches that one can take that might have a successful outcome. I just feel really sorry for people that pay ridiculous amounts of money for recovery specialists to do pretty much what we're recommending here, for free.
I was able to do the same, on numerous occasions, simply using ERD commander's file browser. (Back when it was called ERD Commander)
The point we're both making, though, is that there are many different approaches that one can take that might have a successful outcome. I just feel really sorry for people that pay ridiculous amounts of money for recovery specialists to do pretty much what we're recommending here, for free.
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you should hire some technician. only a qualified technician can bring back your data from hard disk. donot make experiences otherwise you may lose your data permanantly.
Well if the mechanical parts of the hard drive are failing then you pretty much need a specialist to open it up and pull out the platters or mess with some kind of electronics. That's certainly not something I would be willing to try. The boot CDs are great but will only work if the hard drive is still mechanically intact.
When the disk physically fails it can be especially when there is physical damage like flood or fire.
While on the topic the one tip I heard years ago if the drive won't spin up is put it in a freezer bag and freeze it for a few hours. While I haven't done this myself this apparently works quite well. Just be prepared to start copying if you get it to spin up. You may have to repeat.
I also saw another instructional video on youtube that showed the guy swapping out the platter on good drive for the bad one that was the same model. It wouldn't surprise me if that is what most of the specialists are doing unless they have special hardware they can mount any platter too.
I've used Linux once or twice to view disks, as well as recovery tooks (fixboot and fixmbr) for the light stuff. My Mac has been known to read a bad drive now and then too.
The others are right on data recovery though. I've had two disks at work go bad that I've had to send out, both with firmware problems preventing the drive from even showing up, much less being able to format or read it. Ran about 2 grand both times. The cost goes up exponentially when you start having physical problems with the drive.
When the disk physically fails it can be especially when there is physical damage like flood or fire.
While on the topic the one tip I heard years ago if the drive won't spin up is put it in a freezer bag and freeze it for a few hours. While I haven't done this myself this apparently works quite well. Just be prepared to start copying if you get it to spin up. You may have to repeat.
I also saw another instructional video on youtube that showed the guy swapping out the platter on good drive for the bad one that was the same model. It wouldn't surprise me if that is what most of the specialists are doing unless they have special hardware they can mount any platter too.
I had the freezer trick work once, but had it fail more times than I can count.
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