Awiserbud
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Hi everyone, I have an old windows XP PC with a dead hard drive, There are lots of photos on there that i would like to recover if i can, Most of them were backed up, something i did probably once a month or if i had important photos that i didn't want to lose, these are mostly snapshots but unfortunatly i never got round to backing them up before the PC refused to boot up.
I suspect the physical hard drive has a fault somewhere, it goes through the motions of booting up, but crashes halfway through and shuts down, almost as though part of the disc is damaged, it doesn't give me an error as you might expect if it was a software problem, and it won't boot up in safe mode or otherwise. Obviously i dont want to format the drive and risk losing the photos all together so what i was wondering was would it be possible to get another hard drive that i can boot up from and use the suspect one as a slave drive just to retrieve the photos.
I know this is possible with a good drive as i have done it before, but if the drive has poor or damaged segments would this prevent it being set up this way?
If not, and assuming the hard drive does indeed have damaged segements is there another way of retrieving files from it? I'm not worried about saving the hard drive, only the files.
Thanks.
I suspect the physical hard drive has a fault somewhere, it goes through the motions of booting up, but crashes halfway through and shuts down, almost as though part of the disc is damaged, it doesn't give me an error as you might expect if it was a software problem, and it won't boot up in safe mode or otherwise. Obviously i dont want to format the drive and risk losing the photos all together so what i was wondering was would it be possible to get another hard drive that i can boot up from and use the suspect one as a slave drive just to retrieve the photos.
I know this is possible with a good drive as i have done it before, but if the drive has poor or damaged segments would this prevent it being set up this way?
If not, and assuming the hard drive does indeed have damaged segements is there another way of retrieving files from it? I'm not worried about saving the hard drive, only the files.
Thanks.