How to: Recover data from a Hard drive which has health less than 10%

[sheldonkevin7]

I have Gigabyte 78LMT-S2PT Motherboard. I had attached 2 500GB Seagate HDD(1st is 6-7 years old and the 2nd one is 2 years old HDD) to it, but as my PC used to lag a lot, I removed the 2nd HDD and was running my PC on the 1st HDD. While I installed an OS to it, I used to get a warning message on startup saying my HDD is about to die and please backup the data. I was about to transfer it in a week or so, but before that could happen, my HDD died. How I came to know this was when one day I was switching on the PC it came up till the Windows 7 boot animation, and then it used to restart automatically. After it restarted, it wasn't detected in the BIOS. I thought that the HDD would be dead. Just to confirm things, I connected my second HDD and booted Windows 10 from that but my 1st HDD wasn't shown in 'This PC'. So now I am pretty sure that the old HDD is dead. Is there any way I can recover the data from it? I have looked for tutorials online which said to open the HDD and check if the platter is on the disk. I doubt that is the issue cause my HDD doesn't make any noise whatsoever. What other solutions could I possibly have for this issue?
Sorry if this has been asked beforehand. Thank you so much in advance.

 

[USAFRet]

1. If it is 'dead', and the OS can't see it...you waited too long to get any data from it.

2. Any "tutorial" that recommends that you physically open the drive case and look at the platter should be ignored completely.
That is a fast way to turn an almost dead drive into a completely dead drive.

 

[sheldonkevin7]

1. If it is 'dead', and the OS can't see it...you waited too long to get any data from it.

2. Any "tutorial" that recommends that you physically open the drive case and look at the platter should be ignored completely.
That is a fast way to turn an almost dead drive into a completely dead drive.

I don't think its 100% dead, cause if it was so, I wouldn't be able to go till Windows 7 Boot Animation at least once. So I think it would have very less health. Like around 5% or so maybe? Because I was told by a friend that if the health goes below 10% the OS wont detect it. Wonder if its correct or no.
What options do you think I have in such a scenario?

 

[gruzkork]

3rd party recovery softwares would be your best guess in this situation, but they're expensive... Or you could even try to boot a live linux from USB and see if you can recover your data from here. It happened sometimes that Linux could see drives that were unavailable in Windows (assuming your drive did shut down correctly and Linux can mount it without any issue..)

 

[seagate_surfer]

Hello sheldonkevin7, sorry to hear that you have run into problems with your HDD. If you are interested in trying to get your data back, we offer a DIY option. This of course if you can still access the drive. To read more about this check out our FAQ on that software.

As suggested, if you open your drive you may never have a chance to recover your data.