It is the classical dilemma between man and machine, each wants to overcome the other, if you still have no idea what I am talking about – hum, get the “The Matrix” and pretend you got my point. Anyhow, let us get back to reality, have you ever needed to finish up a task and SUDDENLY your PC surprises you with “I am in the mood to crash” attitude? Well, I have! And for those who haven’t been in such a situation, IT IS NOT PRETTY! I tried to understand why it is punishing me and that too now at the time that I needed it the most? well no worries, I figured out how to recover my data and I will share it with you. HURRAY!
All you have to do is …….. No not to kick it and it will magically work!! Borrow your sibling’s hard drive for a couple of moments, or maybe your evil neighbor’s hard drive!!.
Pay attention to the following instructions, I will try to simplify them as much as possible:
Solution: set your PC to have a Master Hard Drive and a slave Hard Drive, in other words, one hard drive will load the operating system and the other one will act exactly like a USB flash disk!
So now, your hard drive crashed, it means that something went wrong with one or more of the system files, which might be caused by a virus, bad handling of the computer, or maybe you wanted to torture your computer and deleted one of the system files accidentally! since the previous happened, your drive can no longer load an operating system for you, and since the operating system is your easy way of viewing and manipulating your files and data, then you get no output without it, so it is not your data that is lost or deleted, it is a problem with the Operating System’s functionality, keep up with me before you decide to throw your hard drive away.
FIRST and before anything else, totally detach your PC from any electricity. Second, we will attach the borrowed hard drive as the Master Drive, how to define it as a Master Drive? Before you attach the borrowed drive, check out the back of it for changing it to a Master Drive by changing the position of the white little part on the pins of the hard drive. Then, you can attach your crashed hard drive. Now turn on your PC, and viola! your PC will load the operating system on the new drive, open “My Computer” on Windows, or whatever folder where you can access your hard drive. You will find your hard drive name placed next to the name of the new hard drive, open it and backup your data, then advice your hard drive not to crash again or you will throw it and get a new one!! Now format your crashed hard drive and give a fresh copy of your operating system.
Hope this helped, now did you get the moral of “The Matrix”? Humans always win! DUH!!
