Broken External Hard Drive

SPAWN of II · Apr 10, 2018

Yesterday my mom dropped an external hard drive with 500 GBs of important info. This destroyed the port. I have split it open and removed the drive and then plugged it into a desktop. I used EaseUS to see that everything was still on it and the internals of the drive were not damaged. They are not. EaseUS wants $70 to remove the files and I would rather not pay that. When I try to open the drive files in the file explorer it says that the drive will need to be formatted. That erases all data correct? Anyone know of a free or cheaper program that could help me or will the files remain after I format the drive?

Dave8671 · Apr 10, 2018

Yes formating the drive will erase the drive. You can try this program I never used it. How did you connect the drive to the pc from inside?

https://www.lifewire.com/puran-file-recovery-review-2622882

Or if this fails you can try freefilesync though not a recovery program it should find that drive just create a folder on the pc for coping the connected drive data. read how to use it first. I use it for my backups to my recovery drive.

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