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lui

A good easy way to recover a dead laptop's hard drive data?

#1 April 13, 2015, 01:38:42 am

So, as I was spriting zem's sprite request i decided to go to sleep and continue on it in the morning, but guess what? The next day my laptop starting making a weird clicking noise and wouldnt boot up right. And i knew from the instant it became like that that the hard drive pretty much died. Crap. First health issues, then i finally got rid of the virus on my laptop, now the hard drive just straight up dies. Ugh. Luckily i backed up my WIP sprites, but I need some other important data that was in that drive, can anyone reccommend a good way or guide to recovering data from dead hard drives?

Jesuszilla

Re: A good easy way to recover a dead laptop's hard drive data?

#2 April 13, 2015, 01:56:07 am

Loyal to the Game

Once you hook it up through, say, an external enclosure, use Recuva on the drive, definitely.

Just make sure the virus isn't one that can spread when hooked up, though.

lui

Re: A good easy way to recover a dead laptop's hard drive data?

#3 April 13, 2015, 08:52:53 am

Nah, theres no virus trust me.
Recuva? Huh, ill check it out. Any other suggestions? I had a bunch of sprites i was working on in that hdd ;-;

MR. IBZS II

Re: A good easy way to recover a dead laptop's hard drive data?

#4 April 13, 2015, 11:18:26 am

Super Mario Fighters 3 resurrected.

Jesuszilla said, April 13, 2015, 01:56:07 am

Once you hook it up through, say, an external enclosure, use Recuva on the drive, definitely.

Just make sure the virus isn't one that can spread when hooked up, though.

I have to look into this as well. I want to get things off of my previous rosters on dead laptops...

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