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My external acer laptop hard drive has corrupted, and they suggested to restart the computer but it does not work can anyone provide me a valid way to fix and recover it.
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Hello,
If your external hard disk is still recognized by Windows:
Test your hard drive with CrystalDiskInfo
Try to recover data from the hard disk with Testdisk-Photorec:
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step
If your external hard disk is not recognized by Windows:
Check the USB connection cable
See if it appears in the disk management
If it is no longer recognized and no longer works, it will be necessary to ask a specialized company to perform a data recovery, this operation is quite expensive.
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