Only 25gb visible in a 1tb HDD

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surferpoint9819

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Hello,

I have a Samsung 1TB HDD which was inside a laptop that suffered a huge fall. I put it into a case and plugged it to another laptop, to see if it still worked, and I can only access 25GB of that terabyte. When I run the disk management tool from windows, I see several partitions, among which I can see the 25GB partition that I can access.

Is there any way to access the data in those partitions?

Does this mean the HDD is not damaged?

Thank you in advanced for your help :)
 
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Hi

How old is the samsung drive (& laptop) ?
Is it a genuine old Samsung or a samsung branded Seagate drive (from 2012 onwards)
( I suspect the latter since 1TB on 2.5" is fairly recent)
Get the Seagate Windows Hard disk Diagnostics program and see what it thinks of the drive

Though if data is realy important leave drive off and get a data recovery company to quote.

If drive was running (with heads not parked) when impact happened likely serious damage occured either to heads or disk surface or both

Some laptops have motion sensors to park hard disk heads when vibration or fall detected.
I have only seen this on Toshiba business laptops but other use the technology


regards

Mike Barnes
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What...why? Reformatting the drive won't reverse the physical damage to the heads and/or platters.
There's nothing you can do but make it worse on your own.

You need a professional data recovery lab.
 
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Hi

How old is the samsung drive (& laptop) ?
Is it a genuine old Samsung or a samsung branded Seagate drive (from 2012 onwards)
( I suspect the latter since 1TB on 2.5" is fairly recent)
Get the Seagate Windows Hard disk Diagnostics program and see what it thinks of the drive

Though if data is realy important leave drive off and get a data recovery company to quote.

If drive was running (with heads not parked) when impact happened likely serious damage occured either to heads or disk surface or both

Some laptops have motion sensors to park hard disk heads when vibration or fall detected.
I have only seen this on Toshiba business laptops but other use the technology


regards

Mike Barnes
 
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surferpoint9819

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Thanks everyone for your answers. I've tried the Seagate SeaTools Software, and it throws a lot of errors in the tests. I don't think it'll be possible to repair it, at least without the help of professionals, and the data is not so important as to justify the cost.

Thanks again :)
 
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