First Precautions:
Stop writing or copying anything on hard disk else the original data will be overwritten. Do not install any software on the drive that you wish to recover to prevent any data overwritten.
Connect Your Drive To Different PC/Laptop:
Do not waste your time on anything else, until you try this. Remove crashed drive and connect to any other machine as secondary drive. You need a USB to IDE/SATA adapter to perform this. This adapter you get in local computer shop in low price. If you know to how to connect hard drive internally to desktop then you can check with that method as well. If you get any success to access the crashed hard disk, do not get overexcited until you copy all the required data. As the access could be temporary and there are chances of getting it crashed again.
Use Free Data Recovery Software:
If everything fails for you, try using data recovery software. Many data recovery software tools are available for free but there could be limit of data to be recovered. Earlier, we have posted on freeware data recovery tools,How to recover deleted files in Windows 7 and 8. You can use these data recovery tools in 3 different ways such as “Recover Deleted Files”, “Find Lost Data” and “Find Lost Drive”.
Hiren’s BootCD:
“Hiren’s BootCD” software allows you to boot into version of Windows called MiniXP from the bootable CD or bootable flash drive and run diagnostic utilities on a problematic computer. To perform this, you will have to connect another drive to the machine such as an external hard drive or a USB flash drive so you can copy your recovered data to.
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