we all love to hide those rare set-up files,Crack codes, Cad Accessories, wonderful rendered images, textbooks, commentaries, songs and movies in our 'safe sanctuary', the external Hard disk, usually to keep it away from colleagues or just other users in case you share a laptop with other people or just a safety precaution; as a back-up location, in case we ever lost information in the pc.
An external Hard-disk proves very reliable in all situations, In fact, people who do not have reasonable space on the PC hard-drive even have most of the important data on the external Hard disk, but what happens If it ever crashed.
yes, they rarely do, but still, they fail sometimes!
If you have bad Hard disk ethics, such as removing it abruptly before it has finished writing or performing an action, it may be prone to a fatal failure in the near future. When this happens, your windows OS may run a checkdisk operation automatically and try to recover your data. The recovered data would mostly be with a unique file extension: .chk. ( a checkdisk file).
The files would most likely not appear in a
windows operating system, in fact your hardisk may appear as occupied but still be empty. In case you use a ubuntu based operating system like linux, you can actually see the .chk files appearing broken. You may attemt recovering them, by renaming the files appropriately with the correct extension types.
for example, an image file which you recognise by memory should be renamed to the.jpg extension etc.
you may do this for all the other broken files. But this may take forever if you have tonnes of data in your hard disk. It wont be practical to rename each file manually.
In that case You can use a data recovery software called Power data recovery. I used this once, and even though I had lost hope on the hardisk and had formatted it. It recovered every single file I ever had stored in the hardisk since I bought it.(including deleted files). After ecovery , you would be required to select the particular files you would like to save.
It is more advisable to retrieve the data to a different location other than the hard disk which you have just recovered the data from. However once the saving is done, you may transfer the same data to the hard disk as a fresh information.
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