Well about a year ago now my Hitachi 500gb HDD in my Dell Inspiron 1545 running Windows 7 died, so I finally decided to try & fix it, it got passed down to me a couple years ago now & it's got a fair bit of stuff I would like back & the previous owner had some important documents they also wanted. (which is actually what I was doing when it died, I hadn't used it for a fair while and went on it to get documents off it and it froze when I was transferring them so I turned it off & on again and couldn't get back into my account again)
At first I thought it was a virus or something to do with the OS and thought it would be fixed by simply re-installing Windows 7 but I thought before I did that I would get a HDD enclosure to retrieve my data/files just in case they got erased by the re-install, so I put the HDD in the enclosure and plugged it into my laptop it cam up with the following RECOVERY (G: ) & Local Disk (F: )
in the RECOVERY (G: ) there is 1 file 'ReeSys' & 2 files 'DELL' & 'Recovery' Recovery is empty & DELL has another folder called 'Image' inside that there's 3 files 'Catalog' 'Factory.wim'
'FactoryImage' all last modified back in 2010 so I'm guessing they are the factory settings and will not contain any of my files/data I'm after
when I click on Local Disk (F: ) it try's to open it for a while then tells me it needs formatting & then comes up with the message F:\ Disk is not accessible.. Data error (cyclic redundancy check) and when I go into Properties> tools & try to check for drive errors it comes up with 'disk check could not be performed because Windows cannot access the disk' and when I try and open it in disk management it does the same.... (It might be worth while to mention the HDD makes rhythmic some sounds when you try and access it)
So, yeah I'm not really sure what to do, I thought I'd seek some advice before I go ahead and try anything else and probably make the situation worse and lower the chances of me recovering my files/data haha
And before anyone says I should of backed it up I know and regret that I didn't and from now on I think it would be wise to start backing up my files from now on because anytime a computer or phone dies unexpectedly I end up loosing everything!
Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks!
At first I thought it was a virus or something to do with the OS and thought it would be fixed by simply re-installing Windows 7 but I thought before I did that I would get a HDD enclosure to retrieve my data/files just in case they got erased by the re-install, so I put the HDD in the enclosure and plugged it into my laptop it cam up with the following RECOVERY (G: ) & Local Disk (F: )
in the RECOVERY (G: ) there is 1 file 'ReeSys' & 2 files 'DELL' & 'Recovery' Recovery is empty & DELL has another folder called 'Image' inside that there's 3 files 'Catalog' 'Factory.wim'
'FactoryImage' all last modified back in 2010 so I'm guessing they are the factory settings and will not contain any of my files/data I'm after
when I click on Local Disk (F: ) it try's to open it for a while then tells me it needs formatting & then comes up with the message F:\ Disk is not accessible.. Data error (cyclic redundancy check) and when I go into Properties> tools & try to check for drive errors it comes up with 'disk check could not be performed because Windows cannot access the disk' and when I try and open it in disk management it does the same.... (It might be worth while to mention the HDD makes rhythmic some sounds when you try and access it)
So, yeah I'm not really sure what to do, I thought I'd seek some advice before I go ahead and try anything else and probably make the situation worse and lower the chances of me recovering my files/data haha
And before anyone says I should of backed it up I know and regret that I didn't and from now on I think it would be wise to start backing up my files from now on because anytime a computer or phone dies unexpectedly I end up loosing everything!
Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks!
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