recover data from a broken laptop hard drive

Liam127

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Dec 31, 2013
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Hi,

My laptop - an Acer Aspire 7535 - failed to boot up though the lights came on and the fans operated. The screen did not active ie remained black. I have removed the hard drive and connected it to another laptop and though the faulty hard drive powers up the good laptop does not recognise it. The faulty hard drive makes a simultaneous buzz and click, repeating every 1 second approximately. I would like to know if a new hard drive would solve the boot up problem and if it would be possible to retrieve data from the faulty hdd (I am keen to recover things like my photo editing suite).

I look forward to hearing from and thank you very much in anticipation.

Have a great New Year

Liam
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Sounds very much like a dead/dying drive. A new drive and re-installation of everything would almost certainly work.

But as for your photo editing suite....that would need to be reinstalled on the new drive and OS. Even if you can make that drive read, you can't recover an application and make it work with a new OS. Some things do, some things don't.

Your files (not applications), OTOH, may be recoverable...IF you can get the drive to read. But the more you mess with it, the less chance you have of recovering anything off of a dying drive.

USAFRet

Titan
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Sounds very much like a dead/dying drive. A new drive and re-installation of everything would almost certainly work.

But as for your photo editing suite....that would need to be reinstalled on the new drive and OS. Even if you can make that drive read, you can't recover an application and make it work with a new OS. Some things do, some things don't.

Your files (not applications), OTOH, may be recoverable...IF you can get the drive to read. But the more you mess with it, the less chance you have of recovering anything off of a dying drive.
 
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Liam127

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Dec 31, 2013
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Hi USAFRet,

Thanks for your prompt reply. I suspected that would be the case but wanted someone who knows a lot more than me to confirm it.

Happy New Year

Liam127 (RAF ret)