HDD Fails to load operating system on laptop.

HogCooter

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Hello,

I have a Dell insipiron that started to overheat and then shut my laptop down. When I turned it on, the laptop failed to read the operating system from the HDD.

I ran the Western Digital DLGDIAG on it and it said I had too many bad sectors (08).

1. Is the drive recoverable?
2. Is it possible to get the information off the drive?

Any assistance is appreciated, this hard drive has EVERYTHING on it. Thank you.
 
Solution
as long as the drive controler and data not scrambled. the drive should come up as another drive letter and let you move the data.
if there is file damage you can try recovia from people that made ccleaner to see if it can recover your files.
to get the data off and then format it and or rerun dell restore on it.
you can make a hirem boot cd and use the mini windows xp boot on it and a usb stick to pull your data off. if that wont work then you can try buying a 30 kit. it a hard drive to usb kit with laptop adapter. the kit will work if the drive not dead or fried.
 

HogCooter

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I got the hard drive to USB kit last night and am working on it from another box, and the western digital checks won't run because of bad sectors. My main question is "Can I still get my old information, pics, documents, etc. off of this drive?"
 
as long as the drive controler and data not scrambled. the drive should come up as another drive letter and let you move the data.
if there is file damage you can try recovia from people that made ccleaner to see if it can recover your files.
 
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HogCooter

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I used EaseUs and was actually able to get a lot of my data. Thank goodness.

How does a 500GB hard drive produce over 2TB of recoverable material though??????

I know I backed up the hard drive using Dell's backup, but backed it up on the hard drive itself. Is there a way to pull that backup and get everything back on a new hard drive?