Brocken Hard drive?

landy7800

actually i think it is showing but not as the name. there is a section in disk management that says disk 1 with a icon of a square with a red arrow pointing down, under that says unknown then under that say not initialized.

landy7800

there is no power supply as its a y shape usb which i have replaced as i thought the wire had broke.

landy7800

please reply someone lol :beer:

googler

Do you have any other computers available apart from the laptop?

You've removed the drive from its enclosure, so you need to either;
Place it in a USB caddy and connect it to a USB port on your laptop (make sure the ports are clean and not clogged with dust)
or
Place it as a secondary drive in a desktop PC

and try and access it that way

colin79666

If it is worth $89 to you then buy a copy of Spinrite. If it doesn't work (I've had great success with it) then you can get a refund within 30 days of purchase.

https://www.grc.com/cs/prepurch.htm

tavernman

tavernman wrote: »

Try recuva (free) https://www.piriform.com/recuva or I prefer testdisk/photorec (also free) http://www.cgsecurity.org/

Did you try testdisk/photorec they may help ?

landy7800 wrote: »

please reply someone lol :beer: