Harddisk broken? Maybe you can fix it!
It has happened to all of us. The computers harddisk stopped working. Whoops, you forgot to make a back-up and still needed some files that are only on that disk..
There are several companies who can probably retrieve data for you, but these companies are charging pretty much. However if you really NEED the data on the disk you might want to try these instead of messing with it yourself.
Bernard Belanger made a document of how you might fix this yourself. It only works if the drive is still detected by the os and spinning. If you hear a “clicking sound” this might be the place for you.
At geeky projects they have several solutions depending on the type of failure. You can find to page here.
Good luck if your disk is broken, hopefully this helped you to get back that important files!
If you have found other good resources to fix disks let me know via the comments!
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