SATA Hard Drive failed during Vista installation ... Trying to get back my data...

[kevin_476]

It all happens when I was trying to upgrade my system with VISTA Well, I don’t know how but my hard drive died on me... and Vista won't boot. Interestingly, when I pop the drive into an external enclosure, and turn it on inside of VISTA, it causes the computer to crash, and restart. I spent some time searching these forums for some help, but figured after about 15 minutes, that I should start my own post.

I would love to do this recovery myself, but the data is very important and crucial that I don’t want to take any risk. Can anyone offer me some pointers as to where I might begin, given the strange crashing symptom?

Any and all help appreciated.

[aaron_us96]

It could be bad sectors / damage to partition table or file system structure in such away that it will hang the system. I suggest downloading manufacture disk drive test or you can try the partition repair/data recovery software by “Salvage Data Recovery Lab Inc”. You can find it easily if you just run a search in google it’s name… Instructions are clear while installing. Connect your drive as secondary drive on the system (not external) / or even primary and let that software run. That at least will let you know if drive is ok.

[ghb]

I suggest you use data recovery software such as EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard to recover your files.

Download demo version: http://www.easeus.com/download.htm

You can use "AdvancedRecovery" to scan your corrupted partition. After the scan is complete, the lost file will be displayed in Data Recovery Wizard, you can select them and recover them.

[niaz2nal]

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thanks
niaz

[compt 134]

When SATA hard drives are very recommended on and shouldn't have gone like that. What is your computer configuration? If you have another computer, make it secondary drive and check if it is ready to throw into trash or something can be done about it. I think it will work and you will lose some spaces due to bad sectors.

Good luck mate.