Diagnostics software for hard drives is available at electronics stores which sell computers and software including Best Buy. Diagnostics software is also available online. However, some malicious software is advertised as diagnostics software.
Almost every hard drive manufacture does. Western Digital, Seagate, Samsung.
Some hard drive perfomance can be improved through special utilities. Check the manufacture website for such software. I know that Western Digital has software to check and fix your hard drive.
Sometimes when a hard drive fails, it can be repaired instead of replaced. To find repair software online, try websites like Recover My Files and Tom's Hardware.
There is no hard drive recovery software installed on my computer. Most computers will require this software to be installed by the user. There are many options available for hard drive recovery software.
Most likely the hard drive is damaged and you'll need a new one. There should be proprietary hard drive diagnostics available since scandisk is not a good tool for hardware diagnostics.
There is a lot of free software such as HDD Tach and others.
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Portable Software is used.
Portable Software is used.
you have to buy a program which is specialist to do that or hack it nicely.
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Yes, there is an easy to learn software to recover hard drive data. It is called intellirecovery.