Files Recover

blondie asked:

The hard drive crashed. I want to get the data off the computer. I understand that I can add a new drive and put the crashed drive into the slave position and extract the data. My question is do I have to get a hard drive that will fit in the master slot or can I use an external hard drive for getting the files off?

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Mike asked:


Recently my 500gb external hard drive fell onto the floor and now it is not working. Windows cannot detect it at all and it is making a loud clicking noise (I’m assuming that when it fell the head broke).

Is there any way at all to recover the files on it? Could I buy an identical hard drive and swap the disks around? There aren’t any places that fix hard drives in my area so I need to know how to recover the data myself. Thank you.

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