How to recover
Restore data from damaged hard drive
from Windows

Hello. My hard drive just unexpectedly crashed. It didn't show any signs of approaching troubles, so I haven't done backups of the data that has been stored in it, and I am literally panicking now. Could you please help to solve this issue if its possible to recover data from a damaged hard drive at all. Many thanks.

The issue with lost data due to the damaged hard drives is not new. There is a basic rule related to computers – all drives sooner or later fail. Therefore, keeping the data on it only is the biggest mistake that may bring you lots of troubles and cost lots of nerves.[ref en-1]

Various malware infections can also affect files on the hard drive and the system in general. Ransomware attacks focus on data locking, and often these infections lead to lost data or even hard drive issues.[ref en-2] Encrypted files most often cannot be restored by the user without any specific tools. Fortunately, there is a way to restore data from a damaged hard drive. However, please be more careful and don't forget to make backups for at least important documents the next time.

As specialist recommend, first of all, you should try to find out whether boot failure is caused by a hard drive or another equipment failure. The easiest way to do so is to remove a supposedly broken hard drive and inject it to an alternate computer if you have access to it.

If it appears that your hard drive is the main problem, then probably your hard drive has been affected by a severe virus, or some Windows registry errors have been caused by your intervention and led to a hard drive crash. In this kind of scenario, the most important thing is time.

The sooner you react, the lower will be the chance to cause damage to data stored in a corrupted hard drive and lose it permanently. Keep in mind that any data in a corrupted hard drive can be replaced or damaged irreversibly if you apply wrong data from hard drive restoration techniques. Therefore, you should entrust this task to software that has specifically been designed for restoring data from damaged hard drives.[ref en-3] 

Solutions that help to restore data from damaged hard drive

While the Internet is full of programs for data recovery, investigate each of them carefully and make the right choice because the software that you will select will determine whether your personal and non-personal data from a hard drive will have the future or not. Try to read user's reports and recommendations for tools that are user-friendly and powerful enough to extract all needed data.

Data Recovery Pro option for data recovery from damaged hard drive

If you want to restore data from a damaged hard drive successfully, we recommend using [rev id="Data Recovery Pro"] which can be used for free and will help you to restore the data in just a few clicks. Install it, run a full hard drive scan and wait until it delivers a list of data that can be recovered.

If the software cannot recover all data from a damaged hard drive, don't be upset. We believe that such an experience will be a lesson for you and you will learn to back up your data from now on. For that, you can use USB external drive, CDs, DVDs, cloud storages (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.) or another alternative file storage.

Repair Corrupted Hard Disk Drive by running CHDSK

• Launch a Command prompt with admin rights.
• Type chkdsk D: /f /r/x to fix the drive. Change D to a drive letter that is corrupted if needed.
• Press Enter.

Fix damaged Hard Drive manually

• Open This PC and right-click on the drive.
• Select Properties.
• Go to Tools>Error Checking> Check now.
  

  

• Then Check local disk and click Start.
• Select the option to let the system check run with the next reboot and restart PC.