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External drive died? Your data may still be easy to recover |
June 02, 2017
Tawffic Abdul Wahab 's external hard drive stopped showing up on his system. Not a great thing to have happen. However, unlike with an internal hard drive, he's not necessarily looking at an expensive recovery bill.Note: The following is for external drives that are out of warranty and/or without a recovery contract. Use those if they apply, though warranties generally don't include recovery. If you need the data, you might want to try these tricks anyway.[Have a tech question? Send your query to answer@pcworld.com.]Falling bridges
How can I recover a dead drive, you say? Well, external drives utilize what's called a bridge board to handle communications between the USB/FireWire/Thunderbolt controller and the native SATA that the drive understands. Sometimes, it's this bridge board that fails, while the drive inside remains perfectly usable.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3186439/storage/external-drive-died-your-data-may-still-be-easy-to-recover.html#tk.rss_howto
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