Your friend has a Windows 10 desktop system that contains important data. He frantically calls you to say that when he turns on the computer, the lights on the front panel light up, he can hear the fan spin for a moment, and then all goes dead. His most urgent problem is the data on his hard drive, which is not backed up. The data is located in several folders on the drive. What is the quickest and easiest way to solve the most urgent problem, recovering the data? List the major steps in that process

Your friend has a Windows 10 desktop system that contains important data. He frantically calls you to say that when he turns on the computer, the lights on the front panel light up, he can hear the fan spin for a moment, and then all goes dead. His most urgent problem is the data on his hard drive, which is not backed up. The data is located in several folders on the drive. What is the quickest and easiest way to solve the most urgent problem, recovering the data? List the major steps in that process

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Chapter5: Supporting Hard Drives And Other Storage Devices

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 12TC

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