Recover laptop hard drive (3 ways)

Laptop data recovery

If your laptop doesn't start due to some reason and you need to recover data, then you should be aware that laptop data recovery is complicated by the fact that there is only one hard drive in the laptop. So it is not easy to get access to laptop hard drive data. Generally, you cannot access the data because of logical problem, laptop issue, or hard drive failure.

No matter what the cause of failure is laptop data recovery bo

ils down to one of the following:

• Getting out the hard drive, hooking it to the desktop PC, and using ReclaiMe File Recovery to retrieve data in case of logical or hard drive failure.
• Using a bootable CD together with ReclaiMe File Recovery.

Connecting the laptop drive to a PC

Once you get the hard drive out, attach it to the desktop PC using an USB box, a SATA-to-USB adapter, or directly via a SATA port.

Once you successfully hook the hard drive to the desktop PC, open My Computer and see if there is your laptop drive here. If you see the disk there and data looks OK, save data to a safe location.

If there is no disk in My Computer, check Disk Management. To open Disk Management you need press WinKey+R and type in diskmgmt.msc. If you see your drive here most likely you deal with logical problem and you need to recover data from this disk.

Recovering laptop data

To recover data from a laptop hard drive you should use ReclaiMe File Recovery software.

1. Download, install, and launch Data Recovery Wizard Professional 7.5+Crack.
2. Select the laptop drive as a target for data recovery and click the Start button.
3. Wait till the software brings the data.
4. Check the quality of recovery by previewing the files.
5. Select the files or folders you want to recover and click Save.

If you don't see the laptop drive in Disk Management, most likely your drive is mechanically damaged. In this case you can try to connect the drive to a desktop computer directly. You need to remove a computer cover from the PC and connect the laptop drive to a motherboard via a SATA port. Once you connect the disk open My Computer. If the disk is shown, immediately copy data to a safe location. If no, open Disk Management. If the disk is listed in Disk Management you need to create a disk image file, because mechanically damaged drives may get worse due to wear and tear of repeated read attempts. Use ReclaiMe File Recovery software to create the disk image file and then recover data from it. If there is no disk in My Computer and in Disk Management, probably, it is impossible to recover data from your drive at home. You should send the disk to a data recovery laboratory for investigation.

Using a bootable CD

If you do not want to disassemble the laptop, you need a bootable CD or an USB thumb drive. Put either a bootable Windows installation on it, or a bootable Linux (this is called "Live CD"). For Windows, you will need your Windows CD and one of the following tools:

• BartPE (Windows XP only),
• nLite (for Windows XP) or vLite (for Windows Vista).

Once you created a bootable CD, you can boot from it and either create a disk image file of the failed laptop disk or perform data recovery using the laptop resources