Get Data From Hard Drive

[LuNoTiCK]

One of my computers wasn't booting so I tried to put the hard drive in an external usb enclosure.

The data is not super important, but it's not not important if that makes any sense.

I would like to retrieve it if possible, but when I put the drive in the computer it cannot view contents. I get a message like Cyclic Redundancy Error or that I have to format to use it.

Is there anything I can do or should I give up on it? It's not critical data, but wouldn't be bad to have.

Using windows 7, old computer was also windows 7.

 

[Ketchup]

If it were me, I would try this first:

http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Cyclic-Redundancy-Check-Error

If that doesn't work, a quick format and a data retrieval program may get a good bit of it.

There is another data retrieval option, which would involve shipping the drive, but $$$.

 

[LuNoTiCK]

Which data retrieval program would you use?

 

[Ketchup]

I have had pretty good success with Recuva, but there are several out there:

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-file-recovery-programs.htm

 

[fjmeat]

Tricky program, but I got this to work on a drive that said "formatted needed" after plugging it in. This app will copy/paste the files off the bad drive to a good drive. Then you can format the bad drive and it'll work like normal.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

 

[Fardringle]

I worked on a hard drive recently that had exactly this problem. In that case, some of the physical sectors of the hard drive where the MBR resides were damaged.

Putting that drive into another computer and running "CHKDSK /f /r" marked those sectors as damaged so the drive wouldn't try use them and then I was able to access the data on the drive. The drive is not bootable any more and had to be replaced, but it did let me back up the user's data so I could put it on the replacement drive.

 

[Dr-Kiev]

If drive has logical issue with MBR or BOOT sector ,and if you need to retrieve data from it, use to him software tools, like it was formatted. I would suggest R-studio .
Here the tutorial how it works : http://www.angeldatarecovery.com/uncategorized/how-to-recover-data-from-formatted-drive/