How to recover files from a corrupted hard drive?

The problem of corrupted hard drive

Have you ever come across the problem of a corrupted hard drive? When a hard drive is corrupted, you are inaccessible to use it although it does show as a disk. And you also encounter the following possible symptoms:

• Invalid media type reading drive.
  Abort, Retry, Fail?
• File system is displayed as "RAW".
• Windows may ask if you want to format the drive by warning "disk not formatted. Do you want to format now?"
• File names contain "weird" characters.
• "Sector not found" messages.

A corrupted hard drive always contains important files and folders, how to get data back from it? Is there useful method to recover files from a corrupted hard drive? Yes. Send it to a specialist shop and it is going to cost you a bomb to retrieve, save, recover and extract all your data. So the best choice is to recover files from the corrupted drive with data recovery software. The easy recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard can recover files from cases of deleted, formatted and corrupted hard drive.

How to recover files from a corrupted hard drive?

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard has a friendly interface for you to recover files from the corrupted hard drive. If you cannot boot computer after hard drive was corrupted, you can create WinPE bootable CD/DVD of EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard to recover lost data.

1. Download EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard, install and launch it. Click the "Complete Recovery" button on the main window of the Data Recovery Wizard.

2. Select the file types you want to recover. Tick 'Search all lost files automatically' to find all lost file types. Tick 'Ignore bad sectors' to skip bad sectors when scanning.

3. You can see the list of logical volumes found on your computer.

4. Select the inaccessible drive.

5. Click "Next" to begin scanning for Files.

6. Follow the wizard to recover your lost files.

Attention: Do not save the files you want to recover to the corrupted drive, for it would overwrite data, which may cause permanent data loss!

The demo version of the Data Recovery Wizard gives you a much fairer idea about chances of data recovery from your hard disk before deciding upon the purchase. You can buy full version to recover data!

 

If you are running Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) & 10.6 (Snow Leopard) & 10.5 (Leopard), please go to see EaseUS Mac data recovery software.

Related Articles: