Hard Drive
On various technology forums, there are many users who are looking for ways to get off files of an old hard drive. However, if the hard drives is accessible to you and is in a working condition, then it becomes easier for you to retrieve the data from old hard drives. Here, in this blog we have covered methods that will help you recover data from an old hard drive in both the scenarios.
Methods to Recover Data from an Old Hard Drive
When it comes at recovering files from an old hard drives, you need to consider the below-mentioned scenarios:
Scenario 1: When you can access the Old hard drives easily
Method: Connect Hard Drive via USB Adapter Cable
If you can access the old hard drives, then try to connect it to your system using a USB adapter cable to and get assured if you’re able to access it now. Along with that, you need to make sure that your drive isn’t infected with virus/malware and the read/write action is disabled. If you can access the hard drives in all the mentioned conditions, then copy-paste or transfer the data from old hard drives to another storage media.
Scenario 2: Faulty Old hard drive
If incase, you aren’t able to access the old hard drives or it isn’t getting turned on while connecting to your PC, then proceed with the below-mentioned troubleshooting methods:
Method 1: Recover from Backup
Moreover, if you have stored the data backup on Cloud, you can retrieve it from the Cloud storage.
Method 2: Use Hard Drives Recovery Software
Well, if you are one of those who haven’t created the data backup, then, in that case, we would suggest you to choose a powerful hard drives recovery software, such as Stellar Windows Data Recovery Software- Professional Edition.
A: Clone your Old Hard Drives
There might be a possibility that your hard drives is severely corrupt and contains numerous bad sectors. Once you have created the clone of your hard drives, disconnect it from your system. Moving ahead, connect the cloned disk to another system and transfer your data.
B: Create Bootable Recovery Drive
For doing so, you would require the following:
- An external storage drive for storing the recoverable data
- Bootable media drive
Follow the below-given steps to create a recovery drive in Windows 11:
- Type in Create a recovery drive in the search box and then select it.
- When prompted, enter the admin password or confirm the entered credentials.
- After that, you have to connect the USB drive to your PC. Then, select it and click on Next.
- Lastly, click on Create. However, this might take some time, as it has to copy the files to the recovery drive.
Method 3: Choose a Hard Drives Recovery Service provider
In such a situation, you’re advised to straightaway choose for professional and reliable data recovery services, such as Stellar Data Recovery Services.It has controlled-environment with regulated temperature, low level of dust particles, chemical vapors, and other pollutants.
