Scenario: I was going to deal with working data saved on my external hard drive. However, after connecting it to the computer, I could not find the data. I tried different ways to resolve the problem. But, I failed. So well, how can I rescue the data saved on the dead drive?

Answer: As a matter of fact, as long as you turn to a reliable way, you can perform data recovery on dead external hard drive before you panic.

External hard drive allows users to easily store large multimedia files, and it can increase the storage capacity of computer and share files between computers. However, external hard drive data loss caused by different factors (such as mistaken operation and computer virus invasion) are frequently happens. Once users encounter dead hard drive, they can turn to professional data recovery companies and data recovery software to rescue the lost data. Here, we recommend using data recovery apps since data recovery companies need high recovery fees and may leak customers’ privacy. And MiniTool Power Data Recovery is suggested here because it enjoys more than 10 million downloads. More important, it is a piece of free software.

 

How to Realize Data Recovery on Dead External Hard Drive

 

Developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd., it has powerful data recovery competence because of its multiple relatively independent data recovery modules. Besides, this freeware will not influence the original data because of its high security. To recover dead hard drive data, users need to download this freeware from its official website at first, and then install it on computer. After that, users can open it to get its main interface as follows.

 

 

The above window is the main interface of MiniTool Power Data Recovery. From the wizard like interface, users can see 5 different recovery modules (Undelete Recovery, Damaged Partition Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery, Digital Media Recovery and CD/DVD Recovery). Each of these modules focuses on recovering a different data loss scenario. Therefore, please select the most suitable one according to actual situations to perform data recovery on dead external hard drive. All operations can be easily done under the guidance of detailed operating prompts and wizard like interfaces.