Comments on: How to recover data from a failed external hard drive http://www.datarecoverytutorial.com/recover-data-from-failed-external-hard-drive/ How to recover data from failed laptops and desktops. Do-it-yourself data recovery tutorial. Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:56:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Recovery Guy http://www.datarecoverytutorial.com/recover-data-from-failed-external-hard-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Recovery Guy Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:20:49 +0000 http://www.datarecoverytutorial.com/?p=21#comment-51 Jason, <blockquote>Yesteday I took it apart as you did and connected to my main computer as a slave drive. To my surprize the hard drive started and I was able to access it!</blockquote> I have had great success doing that. In many cases the external enclosure failure is not related to the hard drive failure (like in your case). Removing the hard drive from the enclosure and connecting it as a slave will give you an access to your files. Jason,

Yesteday I took it apart as you did and connected to my main computer as a slave drive. To my surprize the hard drive started and I was able to access it!

I have had great success doing that. In many cases the external enclosure failure is not related to the hard drive failure (like in your case). Removing the hard drive from the enclosure and connecting it as a slave will give you an access to your files.

]]> By: Jason http://www.datarecoverytutorial.com/recover-data-from-failed-external-hard-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Jason Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:26:15 +0000 http://www.datarecoverytutorial.com/?p=21#comment-47 Thanks! I has a similar hard drive and one day it just stopped working. The light was comming on but I didn't feel any movement. I thought my pictures and music is gone. Yesteday I took it apart as you did and connected to my main computer as a slave drive. To my surprize the hard drive started and I was able to access it! I got my family pictures back! Thanks!
I has a similar hard drive and one day it just stopped working. The light was comming on but I didn’t feel any movement. I thought my pictures and music is gone.
Yesteday I took it apart as you did and connected to my main computer as a slave drive. To my surprize the hard drive started and I was able to access it!
I got my family pictures back!

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