Re: WD Caviar Green HDD failed. Any way to recover files?

Good evening one and all.

Apologies for the delay in responding as I had lost the shortcut I made to this site / thread! Oops. Anyway, I got back here eventually.

Many thanks to all of you for the many and varied responses you have given. I think my ultimate question was: being as the software wouldn't recover anything, is it most likely that the problem is hardware as oposed to just a damaged piece of software, like the boot sector?

I'm still not sure but I have emails on there...

Hi everyone.

As per the title, I have a WD Green 1tb that has failed. It was my main C drive and my old emails and stuff are all on there along with family pictures and who knows what else. I've rebuilt the PC on an older 250gb drive so I'm up and running.

I would like to recover it if possible, but I can't afford to go to specialist firms. The drive is dated July 2011 so I know it's in warranty but that doesn't help with recovery.

I have tried EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional, 5.5.1. It sees the drive, and tries to recover, but just sits there...