[Storage] Damaged HDD

[xreflectx1]

I have this old hard disk from my laptop which is damaged. Has all data and os on it. Does any pro bro here know how I can recover the files in it especially the Operating system?? Can still access some data in it but cant find important windows stuff....also windows tell me to format one of the disks inside it cos i booting from my spare com...

and the hard disk booted on my com shows 3 local disks (g,h,i)...any idea why?

 

[jtjt00]

Normally, no one recover files from operating system. Instead, it is the user data such as office files, pdf, photo, etc.

For OEM machines, the hard disk is usually partition into 3:
1. recovery partition
2. OS partition
3. user partition

 

[xreflectx1]

Normally, no one recover files from operating system. Instead, it is the user data such as office files, pdf, photo, etc.

For OEM machines, the hard disk is usually partition into 3:
1. recovery partition
2. OS partition
3. user partition

Right now i am able to access all the drives, except one that has nothing in it despite stating 104mb used. I still cant use it to boot my laptop and it keeps going back to the black screen telling me to choose system repair/start windows normally.
Any idea what I can do to solve this? tia!!

 

[sadboy]

Question here is

What had you done before this happen?

You referring the damage as physically / software as in windows crashing ?

 

[Louisloo]

If the os ask you to format, means your partition is already damaged or corrupted. You will not be able to see the files as there is no partition and as recognized as not formatted.

To recover the files, you'll need to use software recovery programs.