Having Problems

Twinbird24

Twinbird24

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I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. Today, I turned on my computer and it froze while loading Windows. A few hours later I turned it on and it did the same thing, so I started up in safe mode and decided to run a boot time ChkDsk. The computer shut down while it was on step 4 out of 5, so I turned it back on. Now I can't start up in safe mode or normal mode, it gets past the Windows Logo, shows a blue screen for less than a second, and then restarts. I took out the hard drive and put in into another computer, when I tried to look at the contents a message came up that said "D:/ is not accessible. The files or directory is corrupted and unreadable." The HDD is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, 500GB. Any suggestions on what to do? I at least want to back up some of my files from my drive before reformatting if I ever have to do that. Thanks for any help!
 
Hey, sorry for the long wait to reply. Anyways, I ran the tool and it failed a critical part of the test, I'm pretty sure the information can't be recovered (I'll do some research and see if there's a way to get some of my data back, and I don't want to pay $$ for a hard drive specialist) but the only few files that I really needed I have backed up somewhere. I tried turning the PC back on after plugging the HDD back into it and it shut down during startup (I think it was something to do with the power supply). Anyways, I tested the power supply and it seems to be working. I'll probably plug another HDD into the PC and make sure it works, unless you have any suggestiong that I could do to help fix my PC.
 
Definately sounds like the drive is toast. If you can't slave the drive to another system to get the data off, it's probably a lost cause unless you pay money to get the data back.
 
I've already tried to get the data off of it but couldn't. I'm at least going to try to find some data recovery software that might help, and, as a last resort, try this.

And it's not worth it for me pay $1000 for a data/ HDD specialist to recover the data.
 
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