Just imagine this: you’ve been working on that important paper for the past two weeks, and you are just about to finish it. The deadline is in a few days.
You save your document, go for a coffee and when you get back, your screen is black. Your computer rebooted itself automatically and is now stuck in the bootup process with a message similar to this: No boot device, please insert a bootable media. You try to restart your computer a few times, but it does not fix your problem. At this point, it is important do stay calm, don’t PANIC! There maybe hope yet!
First, you’ll have to make sure that your problem isn’t related to something else than the hard drive. The failure of your hard disk controller may also be causing this. You could always try to switch your hard drive from IDE1 to IDE2 and see if it fixes your problem. If it’s not, remove the hard drive from your system, and bring it with you to a friend’s house. If it still doesn’t work over there, then you know what the problem is.
The only solution to your problem now is to use a data recovery freeware
>Stellar Information Systems Ltd. Data Recovery Software
Download remarkable data recovery software from a bunch of software provided by Stellar Information Systems Ltd. These data recovery software are available for all computer operating systems. Free Download offers free evaluation of the software & preview all the lost files and folder that can be recovered by the software. It can be found at http://www.stellarinfo.com/download.htm
>PC Inspector File Recovery
This data recovery freeware application is completely free, and it works beautifully. While being at your friend’s house, install your HD as a secondary device and start the computer. Be sure that the drive is seen in the startup process, because PC inspector will not work if you are having mechanical problems with the disk drive or If it is no longer recognized by the BIOS. Head over to pcinspector.de and download the utility. The software supports the most popular file systems on the market: FAT 12, 16, 32 and NTFS. To be able to use PC Inspector File Recovery you will need a working Windows System. Never install it on the drive from which you intend to recover data! The software must be installed and run on a second, independent drive. When you are done, the utility is very easy to use. Just let the application extensive HTML tutorial guide you through all the steps. Hopefully, the application will let you recover your data.
>Unstoppable Copier
Unstoppable Copier enables you to recover data from CDs, DVDs and hard drives with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or other issues that cause read errors. When the program encounters a corrupt file, it will attempt to stitch any readable pieces together, which may result in a partial, yet usable file. You can also choose to skip the damaged file and continue the copy process until the next problem file is found. Other features include option to auto-skip damaged files, copy good files first, resume partial files, batch processing and more. You should note that recovery may take a very long time if there are many corrupted files.
>CD Recovery Toolbox Free
CD Recovery Toolbox Free is a data recovery tool, designed to recover files from scratched or otherwise damaged or corrupt CD, DVD, HD DVD and Blu-Ray disks. Just select the drive that contains the media you want to recover from, check the files you want to restore and start the recovery process. Depending on the level of damage, the recovery process may take a long time, and may not recover all the files.
>ICE ECC
ICE ECC is a file verification and repair tool that enables you to protect your important files against digital corruption using Reed-Solomon codes. The program is not intended as a main backup solution, but rather as a backup for your backup – it can be included on CDs or DVDs before you store your data, allowing you to recover data that has become corrupt due to age of the media or scratches. You can protect selected files or entire folders by simply selecting them and having the program generate an ECC file. If you ever need to verify whether the data has been modified or corrupted, just select the appropriate .ECC file and load it into ICE ECC, which will then analyze the files and can recover any corrupted data.
>TOKIWA DataRecovery
TOKIWA DataRecovery is a simple data recovery tool that enables you to undelete files after they have been removed from the recycle bin. It supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems. The interface is plain and simple, choose the drive to be scanned and then select the file(s) to be recovered, you can recover multiple files by using the Shift or Ctrl key. TOKIWA DataRecovery does not require an installation, and can be run from a USB drive or floppy disk.
>FreeUndelete
FreeUndelete is a data recovery tool that enables you to recover files that have been accidentally deleted and/or are removed from the recycle bin. It scans a selected drive for any files that can be recovered, and displays the results along with an estimated status, indicating chances of recovery. To limit the results, you can filter the found files by file type and folder. The program does not offer a deep scan and cannot recover files from formatted drives.
>Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery
Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery is an easy to use data recovery tool for the recovery of accidentally delete image files on removable media disks (Compact Flash, SmartMedia, Memory Sticks etc.). The interface is very easy to use, just select the device that contains the images that need to be recovered and specify the folder to save the images to. Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery works with images that have been deleted or formatted by the camera. Supported formats are TIFF, Exif, JPEG and GIF.
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