Summary: Lisa asked: "I have an external hard drive that doesn't work. I was wondering how or if I could get the information off of it."<br> <br> <br> Lisa, the main question here is how much you value the information on that drive. If it suddenly died there’s a good chance that there’s something wrong with it that you won’t be able to fix for free.<br> <br> <br> <br> Depending on how bad things are, you may be able to recover some files using software solutions, or that you will need to send it to a lab to have recovery pros work on it.<br> <br> One way or another it probably won’t be cheap.<br> <br> Your first step would be try one of your free software options, they’re usually limited so you’ll buy a paid version, but they may help you.<br> <br> Take a look at DMDE, and Paragon Rescue, they both offer free versions but do expect to have to pay to recover all your files.
