Typically when your hard drive is dead on Microsoft Windows the computer will fail to boot and an error message will pop up on screen stating that the hard drive was not found or is corrupt.
When it becomes necessary to recover a dead hard drive, one can turn to the techradar website which has easy to follow steps which outline the process to recover the hard drive.
Yes, as long the hard drive is not mechanically dead. Just set it up as a slave drive.
a virus that destroys the hard drive also know as the (d:) is syphillis
Either do you install an operating system or create a partition. I don't know what do you mean with configuration of a hard drive. Is it a new one?
One way of recovering data from a dead hard disk would be to get it repaired at a computer shop and buy an external hard disk enclosure that is compatible with the hard disk. Then you can mount the hard drive and transfer data across to the desired computer.
I know but it is REALLY hard to explain.
There is a possibility that one could repair their own hard drive but it would be time consuming. If your hard drive is making a loud steady clicking sound then it is truly dead. Should this not be the case you could try one of the online programs that will try and restore your data back to the broken drive. The best solution is to take the drive in and have a specialist repair it for you or transfer your data to a new drive.
Yes.
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Defragment of your hard drive on a monthly basis is one way of maintaining the hard drive.
One comes with no hard drive and one has 120GB hard drive.
One can unformat a hard drive by using free software from webpage such as 'icare-recovery'. Alternatively, one could ask a computer specialist to unformat a hard drive.