BSoD hard drive recover files

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Xuweiushi

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A while back I had a hard drive that just gave out. Every time I would turn on the computer I would get BSoD then followed by my screen turning black. So I replaced it with a new hard drive everything is fine now but I still have that old hard drive sitting around and I was wondering if I am able to retrieve files from it, there was some pictures and music that I would like to get back. And if so, how would I go about getting those things back? Thank you.
 
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yes, you should be able to run power and a data cable to the device and access it as a data drive to get your information off of it. you might consider, putting on the power lead to the old drive but don't put on the data cable yet, boot your system and see if the old drive motor is spinning. you hold the drive and move it, if the motor is spinning the drive will act as a gyroscope and resist movement and you know the motor is good. After windows is running, you can plug in the data cable and the drive should be detected and you should be able to access it or repair it if the file system is corrupted.
(chkdsk command)

there are some things to worry about. The old drive has its own boot record and reserved partitions.
windows may...
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yes, you should be able to run power and a data cable to the device and access it as a data drive to get your information off of it. you might consider, putting on the power lead to the old drive but don't put on the data cable yet, boot your system and see if the old drive motor is spinning. you hold the drive and move it, if the motor is spinning the drive will act as a gyroscope and resist movement and you know the motor is good. After windows is running, you can plug in the data cable and the drive should be detected and you should be able to access it or repair it if the file system is corrupted.
(chkdsk command)

there are some things to worry about. The old drive has its own boot record and reserved partitions.
windows may decide to renumber your drive mappings and automatically assign new drive letters for you. (depending on the version and how your old drive was setup)
it can result in your current drive that has c:\ being remapped to another drive letter and the next boot of windows would fail it that drive is still installed during the next boot up. (just pull the data cable before you reboot or on the old drive assign a drive letter to the reserved partition and its main partition.
dont't let windows do it for you.



 
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