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Need to recover data from a Bad Sata Hard Disk
Hi,
Recently my 320GB Seagate Hard Disk faced a problem and had to be replaced.
Am running Win7 x64 on my new 1TB WD Hard Disk. However, there was some important and slightly sensitive data that I still want to recover from my old Sata Hard Disk.
Chronology of events before replacement:
Mid-July: Hard Disk was working fine. I had to go out of town for a month. PC was not being used during that period.
Aug 11- I returned home, but PC refused to boot. Even the BIOS screen or the name of the motherboard does not appear. Just a blank screen. After a couple of hours of replugging in all the hardware and power cables, the PC booted and worked normally.
Aug17- PC refused to boot, repeated the same procedure of unplugging the hardware etc but this time i noticed that one of the connectors of my hard disk appeared slightly chipped off at the edge (cant remember if its the power connector or the sata connector). PC worked normally after a couple of hours of playing around with the hardware.
Aug 18- PC was freezing, every mouse click was taking a couple of minutes to respond. I tried rebooting but the faced the same problem as the previous two times. Unplugged the HardDisk and used an old IDE hard disk to figure out if its indeed the hard disks problem. The old IDE hard disk worked.
I went and purchased a new SATA hard disk which works fine now, absolutely no issues.
But i wanted some of my data from the old disk, so I tried connecting the old Hard Disk back but cant get it to boot at all.
Most of the time, it does not even give the start up "BEEP" sound which my motherboard usually makes on boot. But after several attempts I could reach the BIOS part, but after that instead of loading windows it just reaches a blank screen with an Underscore flashing on the top left of the screen.
Also tried using the SATA as a secondary storage to my other IDE (old) hard disk. Strangely, my IDE is not loading windows either. After the BIOS screen, it says "failed to read from the boot device"
Is there anyway I can recover the data from my old SATA?