How can I recover data from an HDD that’s not working?
The issue might be due to physical damage. It’s a very old 3.5 drive, tried to watch some videos but it would just say “ERROR” it has a very important data in it. Would like a to know the process of the recovery, thanks!
To recover the data from old drive the best option is to use professional data recovery company. In most cases when people are trying to recover data from physically damaged hard drives they completely destroy the media and makes this drive unrecoverable. For diagnostic purposes drive has to be opened by specialist in a clean room. Our company works with any old drive interfaces (MFM, IDE, SCSI, SATA, SAS). To start recovery process you can contact us by phone 877-304-7189 or go to the page ACE Data Recovery - How to Start a Data Recovery Case
Dear likarub, 1st for understand how help to you , you should describe how drive doesn’t work. For example , spins or not . If spins , sound is clicking or not . Is drive external or internal . If external , can be problem with power suplay or usb cable . Can you to get more information about drive .