If you are unable to access important data and suspect that your hard disk has sustained physical damage, you need not panic.

On a hard disk, On one more DVD ... navigate to Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > choose System image recovery. Connect the external drive, and choose to recover the PC. The Windows System ...

If you have an old hard drive from a PC or Mac, there is a good chance you can recover the files and data on the drive. You just need to get a device that connect your drive to a new computer.

To recover your data from an external disk through the command prompt, use the attrib command. It supports devices like Windows drive, external HDD, USB, SD card, and any other external storage media.