If you can remove the failing drive from its PC, do it (if you can’t, see Option 2 below).ĭisconnect the machine from power, and if it is a laptop – remove the battery. Option 1: Remove the drive from the computer, and recover contents to a different computer / hard drive. However, if that is not possible, or if you are not sure how to do it, you can recover directly from the computer as well. This means that – if possible – you should remove the drive from the computer, so that it is only accessed for data recovery and not for the failing computer’s ongoing operation. In this how-to, we will discuss some ways to deal with this situation, and which software to use to recover your programs (yes, programs too!), settings and files from the failing drive.Īn important thing to note is that when the drive is already failing, you want to minimize interaction with it as much as possible, since every time you access the drive, you are bringing it closer to total failure. Still, things happen, and you have found yourself with a hard drive that already had bad sectors on it, and potentially other forms of corruption as well.Īt this point, it is usually too late to use a regular backup software, as it will probably fail to deal with bad sectors (which are physical damage on the drive). We all know that backup is important, and that hard drives may fail at any moment. How to recover programs and files from a hard drive with bad sectors
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