Advice needed.
Hey guys been working on a laptop where the HDD is showing critical through Hdd Senital and when i try to load it through windows S.M.A.R.T doesnt pick up any problems, some other HDD Software stakes that it has over 16000 bad sectors after i disable automount and scrub.
The advice i need is if i run the drive to recover pictures videos and audio what software world you recommend I have tried R-Studio with mo success and Hetmans Bundle software and it stuggled to read the drive, the… See More
As said I would put it in another computer and pull them off as this is the method I use most times.👍
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The best would be not to boot from the drive, boot from some Live Linux or something like that and use some software to clone the drive and copy the data from the clone. Also, switch the HDD with an SSD.
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I have used Recuva which is free several times with some success.
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