Revive your laptop hard drive with recovery tips

Your laptop doesn't give you a chance to find/open files on the hard drive?

The laptop's hard drive dead?

In that article, you will find out ALL recovery tips to recover data from laptop hard drive!

Excited? Ready? Let's read!

Case 1. Recover data from laptop hard drive

You notice something wrong with your hard drive, for example:

First, you can use the built-in Windows tool for laptop hard drive recovery. If your version of Windows does not automatically request checkup, do it yourself:

Click Start, select your crashed disk from the list, right-click Properties, select Tools and click Check.

After scanning, you will need to restart the laptop. The problem should be solved.

Doesn’t help?

Proceed to the next step!

This next step is laptop hard drive recovery software. The point is that, before using any aggressive methods to revive your laptop’s hard drive, you need to save data first.

Why?

Because with every method, including the ones above, your hard drive will end up losing its data.

Recover data from a laptop hard drive

Use this step-by-step guide for laptop hard drive recovery with DiskInternals Partition Recovery:

1. 1. Download and install DiskInternals Partition Recovery.

1. 2. The recovery wizard starts automatically and asks you to select a partition on the hard disk that you want to restore.

1. 3. Next, select the recovery wizard operation mode: Full scanning or fast scanning. For your purposes, you should choose full scanning. Select your file system (it will be detected automatically, but you need to put a tick on it). Press Next.

1. 4. Scanning will take some time, so be patient. Do not waste your time; get a cup of coffee and relax!

1. 5. Preview and restore. From the list of found files, select the one you need and right-click on it. Select "Preview in new Window".

1. 6. To save the recovered files, simply purchase a license and enter the license key. Save recovered documents to a new location.

Case 2. Laptop hard drive is dead

Unfortunately, your hard drive is probably dead if:

What, then, can you do?

Carefully remove your hard drive and connect it as an external hard drive to another PC or laptop, ideally with the same operating system.

Here's how to do it:

But what if it does not? Here is what you can do:

• Remove the USB cable, wait for 15 seconds and plug it back in.

Doesn’t work?

• Go to My Computer (this PC), open the Search field (or use the Win + X hotkeys) and type diskmgmt.msc. Hit Enter. Do you see in Disk Management a new drive? No? Then eject and plug it in one more time. See it? Great. Right-click on it and select Mark Partition as Active.

Now, check if you can copy files while it is connected. Yes? Great!

But it may happen that your new external hard drive doesn’t contain any files. In that case, you can find them with Partition Recovery. The steps to follow will be the same.

Good luck!