Solved My Internal Hard Drive Not Detected After My Pc Got Hit By Lightning Hard Drive

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Help My 320 GB Western Digital internal hard drive not detected after my pc got hit by lightning. but i can still hear the hdd spinning. Can anyone atleast help me recover the data from my hard drive. i have some very important data on it. Thanks!

Pull the drive and put it into an external enclosure or use a SATA to USB adapter to access it from another computer.

On a separate machine Create a ubuntu boot disk UBUNTU Boot to ubuntu Click try ubuntu …/ Do not install it will overwrite data / Put hd in an enclosure Plug in enclosure to machine running ubuntu open hd in folder browse to c:/users/(your user)/ copy my documents,pictures, desktop etc. folders to another external drive If hd will not show up in ubuntu then you will probably not be able to recover your data locally, You still have the option of paying a data recovery service but this is rather expensive so it is usually not an option.

That most likely fried your HDD and you most likely won’t be able to recover the data. Can a different PC detect the HDD?