Comments on: How to recover data from a failed external hard drive

By: Garry

Garry — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:57:01 +0000

Hi Theresa,

Open up the hard drive like its shown above, once you have it open and have the hard drive out you’ll see that the part that you would normally connect the miniusb or firewire can still be attached to the hard drive using this you can still plug in straight into your computer hope this helps….also the purchase of a 2.5″ hard drive adapter might be required if its a case that yours is gone

Hope this helps

By: Theresa K.

Theresa K. — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:23:44 +0000

I plan to try this, but I am no tech geek. How do I connect it to a computer once I remove it from the casing? In my case, I have a portable hard drive which appears to work but the computer won’t recognize it.

By: Corey Chapman

Corey Chapman — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:02:58 +0000

data recovery is a very costly option, always make a regular backups.;”,

By: Recovery Guy

Recovery Guy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:20:49 +0000

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

Jason — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:26:15 +0000

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!