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Recover files from a dead Harddrive?

Hello everyone, I am in some serious despair. I have a Seagate SATA drive that fell down from my hand to the carpet floor and now it won't show up in my computer. The drive shows up in Bios and it spins but for some reason it won't show up in windows. Is there any way I can recover my files from that harddrive? I tried the freezing method but it didn't work. Btw it has Win 7 installed on it and has C and a D partition in it. Please help.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    If you go into Disk Management (right click on My Computer, select Manage), can you see the drive there? If you can, the drive may simply need to be reactivated. The fact the BIOS can see the drive is a good sign. Do you have anything important on that drive? If not, I would recommend just re-formatting it. You might also have some luck with some of the recovery utilities from Active@. If everything else fails though, and you critically need data off that drive, you'll probably need to send it out to a data recovery center ($$$$$$$$$$$).

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

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    Lv 4
    4 years ago

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