How to Recover Data from External Hard Drive That Won't Boot?

When it comes to a computer/laptop's internal or external hard drive is not booting means, you cannot boot into the operating system. As a result, you lose access to your data stored in the hard drive. Except the fact that the hard drive is dying, dead, or completely damaged beyod the repair, it's not a big deal in accessing hard drive data without operating system, as long as you find a right method. Continue reading to know how to recover files from external hard drive that won't boot with free Yodot Hard Drive Recovery tool.

External hard drive usually starts giving hints and clues before they fail or become completely unbootable. But occasionally sudden system crash occurs when external hard drive is connected to the computer, which might be the cause for unbootable external hard drive. Therefore safeguarding your files and folders is important now, and so before fixing unbootable hard drive, recover files from external hard drive that won't boot with reliable data recovery software. One can use Yodot Hard Drive Recovery Software to perform unmountable drive recovery, corrupted, and unbootable hard drive recovery. Before going on how to recover data from unbootable hard drive, let's have a look at the factors that are responsible for the corruption of the hard drive that makes it unbootable:

• External hard disk may fail to boot when file system of external hard drive is corrupted severely due to virus infection or using it on different computers frequently
• If you do not remove portable hard drive safely from computer port, then the external hard drive may get damaged and becomes unbootable on the system
• Scratches on external hard drive where boot information is stored makes it unreadable and it fails to mount on system users will lose access to all files on the computer

About Yodot Hard Drive Recovery Tool:

Yodot Hard Drive Recovery utility helps you to restore files from external hard drive that is not getting booted on your Windows system. It is capable of retrieving any file format from external hard drive by thoroughly scanning it. You can add new file formats to the list of file types and search for that particular file. Using this utility is cost effective and gets your data with speedy recovery process. You can get back files lost from unbootable external hard drive manufactured by different brands like Toshiba, Samsung, Seagate, Transcend, Western Digital, etc. It works effectively on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 operating system based computers or laptops.

Procedure to Recover Files from External Hard Drive that Won’t Boot:

However, you can restore files from external hard drive that is not booting irrespective of the cause by using the best external hard drive data retrieval software like Yodot Hard Drive Recovery. Here are the steps...

• Download Yodot Hard Drive Recovery software and install it on Windows computer
• Connect unbootable external hard drive to the system and run installed utility
• You will get main screen of launched software, select “Partitions Recovery” from the screen and click on “Next”
• Choose icon of external hard drive from next screen and click “Next”
• Then select file types from next screen and click on “Next” or select “Skip” option to restore files of all types
• The tool starts scanning selected drive and displays the result in “Data View” and “File Type View”
• Select a file and click on “Preview”; give path where you want to save recovered files on computer and click on “Save” option