I have a HDD which crashed a few weeks back. It is detected by windows explorer but upon accessing the drive, it throws the format your drive error. For certain cases, it has shows the CRC error. We have tried several hdd recovery softwares to no avail (e.g. getbackdata, sea tools etc.). We have sent it to a trusted recovery centre here, but the costs is too steep. Was looking for alternatives and was considering to perform the following:
1. Format the drive (hopefully this resolves all the bad sectors making the drive accessible).
2. Try to recover the deleted files using a recovery software.
Question:
1. Has someone tried this before?
2. Is this a workable solution?
3. Any software recommendation?
Thanks for your advice.
Kenneth
1. Format the drive (hopefully this resolves all the bad sectors making the drive accessible).
2. Try to recover the deleted files using a recovery software.
Question:
1. Has someone tried this before?
2. Is this a workable solution?
3. Any software recommendation?
Thanks for your advice.
Kenneth