HDD crash

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audi30tdi

Vu+ Newbie
Hello!

My HDD is no longer working, it shows up bad. Is it possible to run some fixes on this disk?? Or is it possible to plug the disk into a computer, and install some OS on the computer and then run fixes?? If so which OS and which fix can be run??
 
Your hard drive will have a SATA connection, so yes you can just unplug it, and plug it into your PC, when it's turned off, then the PC should find the disk, and load the drivers, upon booting.
You can then run any software loaded on your PC, to check it, from the basic Windows options, to thge most expensive software, and numerous free utilitiies.
First try your Windows options, open up the Computer option, from the start menu, or shortcut, you might have on your PC, right click, on the drive, select properties, and tools, error checking.
If this fails try a free utility, a quick internet search found this:
Code: 
https://www.lifewire.com/free-hard-drive-testing-programs-2626183
But there are many other options, just do an internet search for free hard drive software, or best error checking software for hard drives, etc...
 
Yes, it just adds as a second hard drive, to your main drive, and when you boot up your PC, to Windows, you can access it, copy files off it, and in your case run software to check the hard drive.
 
Well, copying could be not so easy if our friend is not an expert and if the disk is formatted in extfs3 or 4. To read this kind of partitions from Windows requires some tools (some of them free but not so comfortable as it is copying from supported disks or partitions).
I can recommend, but it's not for free, HDD Regenerator, the only one really able to recover damaged sectors. After, you can try to copy your files if the disk was not in such bad conditions.
 
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