If you think you're dealing with a dead computer, don't panic. Follow these steps to try to save it—or at least recover your files. ... Try other data-recovery methods.

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Once we made sure our recovery drive on the working computer had enough space for the contents of the failed drive, we waited. And waited. A full scan and recovery of our 120 GB drive took four days.

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