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Software to repair damaged spinning hard drive
I had an old XP machine that I ran my email server on. A few days ago it started to give me BSODs and after a few reboots refused to boot any longer.
I purchased a new desktop that came with Windows 10 Pro. I then removed the hard drive from the old XP machine and attached it to that Windows 10 computer and tried to read data off of it. Unfortunately Windows Explorer was very slow to read the "Users" folder on the old HDD and eventually started to give me CRC redundancy errors.
Luckily I had a somewhat recent backup of most of the data, but still I will lose about a week of data if I don't read it from the HDD that crashed.
So I'm curious if there's any software that can recover data from that hard drive? Anything in Windows 10 itself?
PS. I tried to use SpinRite but that software is very old & slow and it doesn't seem to work with newer hard drives larger than 500GB. (Mine is 750 GB.) I tried it on two desktops and it crashed twice on me with this error. Worse still their support blame my BIOS for which I tried every possible setting with no luck.