How To Transfer Data from Dead HDD to External HDD?

[RomitchGaming]

Greetings! My hard drive died recently, & upon booting I am greeting with this screen.

https://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/0xc000000e-1.jpg

I was wondering how I am supposed to back up the files. I purchased an external HDD & a new SSHD. How would I go about transferring all of my data from my old HDD to my external HDD to my new SSHD? I also got a new Motherboard.

My old HDD: Seagate 1TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST1000DM003) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005T3GRNW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_8Jmuyb8AG8QHE

My External HDD: Seagate Expansion 1TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEA1000400) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TKFEEAS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_IKmuybX8QM09V

My New SSHD: Seagate 1TB FireCuda Gaming SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive) - SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Hard Drive (ST1000DX002) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IEKG484/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_9EmuybCSE0DM6

My Old MOBO: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI LGA 1150 Z97 2-Way SLI UEFI DualBIOS ATX Motherboard https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K2RQAQY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_wLmuyb0AF4EKD

My New MOBO: MSI Intel Z97 LGA 1150 DDR3 USB 3.1 ATX Motherboard (Z97S SLI Krait Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OJZTSR8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_TMmuyb5G1PK8J

 

[USAFRet]

The typical way to do a backup is before the drive dies.

How to get your 'data' off that drive?
That depends....how dead is it?
What OS is this?

You will almost certainly (99.9%) have to do a full install on your new drive and hardware.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there RomitchGaming,

That is unpleasant. 🙁

I believe that the best thing you can do is to take out the drive and attach it as a secondary one to another, working computer. If you can access the content right away, just back up all the data that you need. (on your external drive)
After that, you can see what is wrong with the drive: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility

When you make sure that your drive is failing, then you can physically install your new drive into your computer and perform clean OS installation.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[ArtPog]

Try this...

As D_Know suggested, install the defective HDD in your working PC as a secondary drive.

Hopefully the drive will be detected in that system although whatever data in on that disk will most likely not be able to be accessed.

But assuming the disk is detected, use a disk-cloning program to clone the contents of the disk to another drive. KEEP IN MIND THAT IF THE DISK-CLONING PROGRAM IS ABLE TO CARRY OUT A CLONING OPERATION ALL - REPEAT ALL - THE DATA PRESENTLY ON THE DESTINATION DISK WILL BE "GONE WITH THE WIND". CAPICHE?

With any luck you may be able to access the data on that defective disk. Understand it's little more than a crapshoot.