How can we open a corrupted external hard drive without formatting on Windows 7?
You can't. Once the drive becomes damaged or being corrupted, internal file system won't allows any type of read or write actions. Using recovery programs before formatting is recommended if you've saved something useful on it and don't want it to be fade away permanently. I'd recommend formatting only after recovering your precious files. Else, you might lose the entire stored content. Good luck!!
If I am formatting my system, will data in the D and E drive also be deleted?
Simply perform reinstallation of your Windows copy without formatting any drive. Don't even select different drive for installing fresh copy of Windows as it'll also format that particular drive before getting your Windows istalled. Hope it helps!!
I can no longer open "my pictures" folder on my external hard drive.?
Getting "out of memory" error when transferring My Pictures folder from old external hardrive to new one I am trying to copy my "My Pictures" folder (it's quite big) from my older external harddrive to a new, bigger one.I'm getting a JPG decode error- with the message "can't allocate memory for result image(s)! Out of memory". The old harddrive is almost full, but the new one is nearly empty. I formatted it as the instructions said before using it. I am able to see some of the thumbnails in a folder (in both harddrives) but others are blank and when I try to open the photo I get the above error. Is it because I need to free more space on the old harddrive? The copy process seems to work ok but then some of the pictures can't be seen. I don't want to lose the pictures. Any help resolving the problem would be appreciated! Thank you Best Answer - Chosen by Voters Your system is already consuming too muc RAM. Close some of the programs running in the back ground, and copy and paste the folder bit by bit and not the entire folder.
Hard drive shows NTFS and access is denied? How can I sort this without loosing data?
This sounds like a permission issues. see if this works or notRight click the External Drive in My Computer and go to Properties. From here go to security. Note: If security tab not present then go back to My Computer and then click on File then Folder View for Vista and Windows 7. For XP and Windows 8 clck on View then Folder options. Then click on the View Tab Scrool to the bottom and uncheck use simple security. Now go to the Security tab. Go ahead and click on the Advanced Button at the bottom. In this windows click on the Owner tab. Then click on the Change Owner button. If its an external drive then i would change it to the Everyone User so you don't have this issue later and hit apply. Should take owerner ship now. Now click on. Now on the users part at the top click on Edit. In there you should probably see and Unknow User name. Click on that and remove it. Then try accessing it.I guess this might work if this does not let me know Jolly
How do I recover my deleted data files from a hard disk?
Thanks for A2A.Can we recover the formatted files from a computer? How is it possible?It is possible provided that it was only a quick format and nothing else has been written to the drive since. If it was the System drive then you are going to have to remove it and create a new System drive. If it was an external DATA drive, then you only need to make sure that you have enough blank space on another drive for the missing data to be written.Download and install a utility like Recuva. The free version will usually suffice.Connect up a completely blank (full formatted) external drive.Get Recuva to scan that drive and it should reveal nothing.Connect up your hoped-to-be-recovered external drive.Get Recuva to scan the source drive and it should start showing lists of files that are potentially recoverable.Instruct Recuva to write all recoverable files to the freshly prepared target drive.Shut down the system and put the currently “damaged” drive in a safe place.Start your system again, and copy all the files that you want to keep (usually photos and music) to their preferred location.Once you have exhausted this recovery drive of everything that you want to keep, both it and the original source drive can be formatted again and returned to active service.If the “damaged” drive is internal to your machine, but not the system drive, then still use a large enough external drive as the target. Don’t complain about the cost of purchasing a 2TB external HDD. It’s nothing compared to what it would cost you if you need a professional Data Recovery Warehouse would charge and there’s no guarantee that the data is recoverable even then. Besides, once everything is on the External, you can disconnect it while you make sure that you reformat the internal and then copy the files that you really want back into the machine. You then have a backup drive in the hope that you won’t make the same mistake a second time.
Will my computer's hard disk get erased if I install Windows 10?
It depends.There are two ways by which you can install windows 10. One is by downloading and installing winodws 10 using the “Get Windows 10” button which would be present in the system tray, in case you were using Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.Other method is by downloading the iso file for Windows 10 from some third party websites, and making a bootable USB drive or a disc, and installing it from there.No files will get affected if you are to install Windows 10 through the former method. Everything, including those softwares and applications you were using will remain intact. You will not have to install them all over again.But, if you choose to install Windows 10 using the latter method, The Local Disc partition in which you choose to install windows 10 will get formatted completely. Therefore, backup all your necessary files and folders before the installation.The last date to upgrade to windows 10 using the former method was 29th of July 2016. This makes you necessarily stick to the latter method of installation.Happy upgrading!
Will removing a hard drive erase everything?
If you remove the one-and-only hard drive from a regular PC, that is where all the data is located and there will be virtually nothing left. Unless there is a CD in the CD drive or a USB stick round the back.In a techno-thriller novel I have from 1998 (Bad Memory) a clueless thug tries to remove the hard drive from a PC; he removed the floppy drive instead and made it obvious he was trying to hide something.Of course, just removing the drive from a PC will not erase the data on it; it can be easily read on a different PC. But if you are sending the PC to recycling, then removing the drive is a good idea.
If you write zeros to a hard drive one time then fill the hard drive with a bunch of isos, can someone still retrieve previous data?
No. Despite what some answers might suggest, and even what some data recovery advertising might suggest, this is impossible.Some very old hard drives, like from the days when you probably didn't know what a HDD even was, did suffer from track drift. These drives could possibly still allow recovery of previous data even after being overwritten.Modern drives are designed very differently and don't suffer from this effect. So a simple zero-fill is enough to guarantee permanent unrecoverability. Anyone saying otherwise is either ignorant, paranoid, or trying to sell you something (wiping software, data recovery software, etc.) you probably don’t need.I'm sure someone is going to try to rebuttle here and cite “computer scientist" Peter Guttman as a reference, but this ignores the fact that his theory was debunked as fast as it was published.Now, to be clear. A complete zero-fill is not just a quick format which only creates a new file system. Also, flash memory such as SSDs and SSHDs, which employ XOR and wear leveling is not so cut and dry regarding unrecoverability.