How to Recover Data from a Hard Drive that Won't Boot

Well, I used Disk Drill to create an image of my non-loading 5TB SEAGATE BUP and it took longer than 2 days to do so.. now I have the image but it seems completely useless! I try to follow the steps given from one of your videos to mount the disk from the image and I get " The Disk Image couldn't be opened"- Failed to mount filesystems. I have no idea what it means except the result is, I have no access to my data like I did 2 days ago. This is hindering my work! 😔😫😭

Does this work on a drive that keeps disconnecting ??

you don't even need a hard drive enclosure unless your dealing with a laptop drives has PC have more than one sata power & data ports

It was not clear from your video whether or not Disk Drill will recover my Directory Structure or not. Please address this!

I have an external hard drive that won't connect. When I run Disk Utility on my Mac, it doesn't even know that it's there when I plug it in. What do I do then? Would Disk Drill somehow be better at seeing it?
It's only one solitary file I'm concerned about.

Hi Jack, can I recover a win10 hard drive using a win11 laptop?
Isee in the video you have connected win10 hard drive to a win10 machine

Would disk drill find stuff off a storage drive if the computer won't see it? I have a hard drive it's not showing up in the bios disk manager and file explorer

it did not even find my drive ???

My laptop won't boot because h.d. 0 died. I bought an s.s.d. upgrade kit for my Alienware M17xR3. How do I transfer?

Perfect. Actual steps and complete explanation. Thank you!

Do i need to use the external drive case or can I just plug it in as normal?

i just toook my computer to a sthop that is veyr highly rated and one thing they do is data recovery. my computer is dell inspiroin from about 9 or 10 years ago and it crashed on tuesday night.
actaullly on july 3rd. when booting up it said scanning and fixing C drive. and recommende di don't veer off it i. it happened again.
then tueday night july 11h before going to be dmy caclulater app was opening and immidately closing. i tried to reset it but it didn't work. not sure if i may have in advertanttly reset something else or not
but in th emorning
my comute rwould boot up and show the windows logo then the dell logo. and then a blue circle that jus twent on and on and on and on.
it did that many times.
i then did start in safe mode and hit F12 i think? and ran a diagnostic it had a 2000-01 42 code
i then did F2 and messed around with bios in the boot and power areas. and can't remember what i did. then when i booted it said not bootable and listed 4 sata drivers.
i then went back in thought i went to default mofe but that is all it did every since.

so this company is very good at what they do and is under 300 dollars at worst if they can recover things. if they can't at all, then they would recommend a company that takes the hard drive apar tbut needs to be in a room that doesn't oxidize th ehard dive nad is very highly techinal which costs over 1000 dollars.
but i am curious. based on what i have seen so far, would i expect this to be able to be fine through the regular methods? or does it sound like only a very high priced solution would be the answer

My damaged hard drive doesn't even show up on Disk Drill! What do I do?!

Will this work for an external storage drive? I do a lot of video editing and sound work. I got a new pc and put most of my files on an external drive to store and move them to new PC and now I can’t get it to boot up 😢 it worked fine before, didn’t drop it or anything

what about a drive that wont spin?

Is disk drill a paid software?

Worthless Suckerware. They pull you in with 'We've recovered all these files, but it'll cost you $90 to get them (cheapest option)', then after 90 hours of 'Recovering Files' nothing recovered put win program files. Crap. You've been warned.

My disk spins and light comes on for 1 minute then off but disk still spinning. Pc and disk drill still will not detect. Any guess? Thank u

Expensive

Why i got to pay 90 dollars to recover my data ? Asking for activation code

When hard drives are not being seen it is almost always a hardware issue. When it is not you can usually just initiate the disk or assign the drive a disk letter to get access to the files again. If the PC just won't boot, you can just boot from a live CD to get access to the files. So this software seems pretty useless or at least incredibly niche.

I have a drive with primary windows partition, clean command used on the drive so all unallocated. Disk drill picks up lost partition, I want to recover all data but not old files, onlyive files that were on disk, the drive has not been used since the mistake.
Problem I get is scans twice, and shows double of every file but not folders. How can I restore only latest files abd not copies (it adds a 1 on end) at recovery destination. I have used scan lost files. Scans twice although selected the lost partition. Should I stop scan before it gkes back to 1% on 2nd scan?

We must view the recovered files from backup, As you need the external drive to found the file of documentary, photo, audio etc.?

Sound promosing quick question files are on a hard drive from another laptop that wont boot will i still be able to recovervmy files？

NEW DISCOVERED TIP FOR ME:

DON’T BACK UP YOUR DRIVE FIRST

1. My drive is really slow with Disk Drill.
2. I first did the pull up lost Data on only Deep search - not All Methods Search.
3. When the drive got to the icon page (pictures, audio, video etc) it gradually went to a severe slow crawl speed.
4. I then clicked into each Icon and clicked on nearly every item to try to view not save.
5. The drive Search speed sped up 100X or more.
6. An hour later, I checked back and it was again at a crawl.
7. I repeated #4 several times.
8. When the Search was done, I individually downloaded and saved each item separately. It takes a long time, but it works.
9. I then backed up the entire drive Byte by Byte.

*The idea was to “get the Data while you can” on a slow drive. The Byte By Byte backup may not work. So get the Data on the initial search as a rescue attempt. You can then try to back up the drive later, which I did on one drive, but the other one wouldn’t - so glad I got the data while I could. Hope this helps.

i use vegas 18 as my editor. will it recover veg file too?

My old HD isn't detected by my PC! Now I'm running a new one! Will it work?

What if your hdd doesnt show up at all?

Very helpful, thank you! Wish I'd known about this sooner.

Please can this work for a disc that keeps loading infinity and not responding? Thanks

Dear sir,an absolutely brilliant video..
Very clear concise methodical,analytical.
Very clearly ,videoed,superb sound,,very helpfull indeed just subbed,steve from the uk.
Keep up the great work sir.thanku

raided hard drive with a os on then how do i get the data back? can this help?

Disk Drill doesn't recognize my drive but it is on. What do I do here?

Okay but if the drive wont boot, Disk Drill doesn't appear to see that it exists either. How do you recover from a drive that Disk Drill doesn't appear able to see?

Dear Sir, It gives me a hope now. i had crashed my Windows , 512gb HDD boot process while in trail to install Ubuntu into a USB drive. Not sure how, it made Windows HDD unbootable. Would DiskDrill may help here to recover all my data from non boot able HDD. Thank you so much.

Very useful, thank you!

I have a 7 yr old WD that's finally failed. When plugged in it doesn't seem to make any noise, would this program be suitable?
Thanks

I'm using disk drill to back up my 1tb HD and it says its going to take 664 hours..... um....

if you cannot get any hardware needed to do this what I usually do is make a bootable Linux usb drive, and then boot up into the linux OS and see my files attached on the computers hardrive.

Is there anyway I can send my hardrive to you?? I took mine to geek squad and they took out the hardrive from my laptop and tried to put my data on a external hardrive, thing is they said they needed to send it out to there data recovery center, and could cost quite a bit of money I guess it’s corrupted. I don’t have another computer rn and I’m not that great with this stuff. I really really would like to get my files off of it, I only care about my “reason files” everything else I’m not to to worried about. any help would be great thanks.

Does this method work for a A non bootable laptop HDD that has windows 7 installed on it? ( I have only local disk c) I mean can i recover the whole system files with this method or not?

I accidentally powered my laptop off during a windows 10 update and now it will not load up. Is this a problem with the hard drive or just windows 10 corrupted?

what if disc drill cant detect my hdd. i can hear it spinning, and running. i tried to plug it in via usb, and through sata directly to my motherboard and still, not detected. is my hdd just fried then and ive lost all my files?

I'm curious if you know this will help my situation. My HDD head went bad and basically destroyed the needle tip. I got the exact same HDD and swapped the platter over. I still get bad boot sector. I'm thinking I can hook this up as a storage device as you mentioned, but my problem is this: I have a Metamask Wallet extension in my Chrome(I believe) browser. All but one acct I had duplicated or had any info to import onto my other PC or mobile. Will I be able to open chrome file and find it, or will I actually be able to open the browser using the "bad" HDD and use as normal and see what I need to? Does that make sense?
Hoping for some good news. Thanks for the great video!

When i open my computer it tries to load the hard drive but it never completes the load. What do i do. I don't even have any problem deleting all that i have inside the disk . Can you suggest me something please

So I have a laptop that now displays the “boot device not found” error and makes a clicking/ticking sound. I tried the legacy booting trick, but that did nothing.

Not 100% sure if the drive is bad, but do you think my files may be recoverable? Trying to decide if I should get a brand new laptop or just a new drive. Current laptop is 8 years old, but it’d cost less if I could fix it.

No matter what, just hope I could get my files back. 🙏🏼

I have a Pc with a ssd and a hard drive and it wont boot and it just shows a black screen but i can move the cursor around, but when i take the hardrive out it boots. could that mean the hard drive has some sort of issue?? ive also tried it in my gaming rig and it does the exact same.. Any fix?? (edit) i have'nt heard any "bad" ticking or noises

somehow i can only do deep scan. it did find my hardrive. it also says its gonna take 7569 hours. guess thats a lost cause xD and its only 300 gigs of the 500

Ok I got Cleverfiles Disk Drill Free. Ran it. Now if says i have to have Pro to Recover my 100 GB of Files.

Thanks for this. Exactly my situation on a Dell. Got a new 1TB Seagate installed. Using DiskDrill for my Non-Bootable Removed Laptop Drive.

Looks like I will Recover most All Data I need back. Found 1.08 TB Files so far after 2 hr Deep Scan.

Says 6hr 50 min time left. It’s only a 1TB Drive. Hopefully not really that long. Otherwise will be Scanning overnight.