In this case, you can try running a repair installation to fix it. If Windows sees the hard drive when running a repair install, the drive is probably not broken. If the repair install doesn’t ...

If you don’t routinely back up your data and have lost essential files from an external hard drive, external hard drive ...

If your hard drive is playing up on your laptop or desktop PC, see our expert guidance on how to check for errors Windows has a handy feature called CHKDSK (Check Disk) that you can use to analyse ...

However, this is Hackaday, not HireSomeoneADay, so [Matt]’s video on do-it-yourself hard drive repair is just what we like to see. The video begins with plugging the non-functional drive into ...

So, if there’s any even of misfortune, you don’t end up losing your data but can restore it fully from Repair Disc or an external hard drive. That said, things do not always work as expected.