Ideally you would work in an OS that gives you direct control over the drive, and specifically whether it is 'spun up' or accessed. As I said, it isn't rocket science but does require some low level knowledge that isn't as common these days (not unlike how being a home machinist is becoming arcane). Ideally you want to take a raw block image of the drive, not a file based copy. You don't even need or want to mount it read-only. If you connect a drive to windows, most versions will gleefully try and mount it as a writable device. Windows, in general, is not a good operating system for data recovery because you can't readily control what it does.
Getting inside I know is fragile and tedious stuff. Th rest I don't care much about.Īnyone have any tips on getting a failing hard drive to work? I believe the actual drive part of the hard drive is ok but if not how feasible is it to swap just the discs out to a different hard drive? Or the motor from the good drive to the bad? The electronics are dead simple, sitting on top with a few screws and a ribbon.
#How to get to windows winalign software#
The software I am trying to get is winalign v2.0.2 for my hunter alignment machine. I planned to get in as far as swapping just the discs over to the new drive if I have too.
My plan now is to get in another matching hard drive and start swapping parts till it hopefully works.
I am thinking it is the electronics on the hard drive itself. Tried a hard drive dock with the same results.Ĭan't seem to get the software anywhere for the machine so I am trying it all to save it from this hard drive. I stuck the hard drive in another computer as a slave and was able to see it and even see some files, but after pissing with it to long I now can't see it any more. Over winter the hard drive has failed and now the puter won't boot up.
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