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It happens to us all, sooner or later.
We boot up our computer and BAM that’s it.Bluescreenofdeath (BSOD).
The hard drive has failed.But the baby shower pictures are on there!
But my doctoral thesis is on there!
You may be able to learn how to get data off a dead hard drive, all by yourself.
However, if you are that technically inclined, this article iswaybeneath you!
If you feel adventurous, you could check to double-check the connection is good inside the computer.
With some luck, that won’t be the case.
At this point, it would be a good idea to perform a ScanDisk or CheckDisk task.
your setup doesn’t take you to the start-up options page?
Hopefully you have that still.
You may need to go into yourBIOSsettings and change the start-up disk setting to CD-ROM Drive.
Once your setup boots into the Windows disk,you’ll have some options.
One of them will be theRecovery Console.
Choose that by pressing theRkey.
When asked for your Administrator’s password, enter it and continue.
If you didn’t set up an Administrator’s password, just hit enter to continue.
Now, you’ll be presented with a black screen with white text.
At the prompt, typechkdsk /r.
What this does is run theCheck Diskutility on the hard drive and repairs any problems it might find.
If this does the trick, your rig will reboot and work fine.
If this happens again, you’ll be very lucky to recover it once more.
If that doesn’t work, boot into the Recovery console again.
Those are pretty advanced commands to use, so you may not want to run them.
Run at your own risk, is all I can say.
What happens is that the computer you plugged it into, treats it as aslave drive.
I have used one of these many times.
