PC Tips : How To Access The Data Inside Crashed HDD? : PC Tips

Many of my friends when their Operating System (OS) crash, they just format the PC because they thought that they cannot access the data inside the Hard Disk. But even, if our OS crash, we can still access our data inside the crashed HDD. I hope most of you have seen the blue screen of death when your Operating System crash.

We can access the data by using Portable LiveCD like Portable XP / Linux Live CD. My preference is SLAX Linux Live CD.

Just boot your computer with newly burned bootcd (SLAX). After successful boot you can be able to see your hard drive contents from the folder view. No need to mount the partitions, because it is already mounted. Just use a pendrive to backup your importat data.

Otherwise, use the below method :

Just remove your crashed HDD from the your PC and connect that with other Xp based PC's secondary slot, check with bios for HDD detection and boot it. After booting you can see your HDD in My Computer view as D: or E:

Just use a pendrive to backup your importat data.