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I have had a run of bad luck lately with hard drives and have one last bit I am trying to recover, a journal of our first daughter growing up embedded in self-hosted Wordpress on XAMPP. I actually have two issues but will focus on the hard drive one here. The other issue is that a backup of this was made using Cobian and zipped along with many photos resulting in a 400GB zip file that I can not extract the content from. That's another story.
I would like to know what you all think is wrong with the drive so I can try to take some next steps to recover it.
Subject: 1TB Seagate Internal 3.5" Harddrive, sata interface. The drive itself has 3 partitions. 20GB for the Windows XP operating system, a 940GB for media storage, and 40GB for my website (WWW). I was initially able to recover most data from the media partition, but was not able to read from the 40GB WWW partition. All partitions are NTFS.
I put the drive in my sata dock connected via USB to my laptop to try and pull off the data. The laptop is a windows 8 laptop. It took a little bit, maybe 30 - 60 seconds, for the drive to be recognized which is much slower than usual for the dock. Disk Management in Windows 8 recognized all partitions correctly. I was able to open file explorer and browse the WWW partition folder structure. I immediate setup a destination and using windows 8 file explorer began to copy over the contents. The process started with Windows identifying the content to copy, and partway through this process stopped.
Since then, when I remount the drive Windows recognizes the partitions correctly, but they are noted as "RAW". Additionally when I try to open them in Windows explorer, I get a CRC (cyclical redundancy check) error and can no longer open the files.
I have attempted to use diskinternals ntfs and partition recover, with no success...no files found to be recovered.
Is this a part (circuit board, head, ???) problem in the drive I can correct. It seems like it is so close to being recoverable but something is stopping it. The drive sounds normal to my ears.
Any suggestions, tips, or guesses?
I would like to know what you all think is wrong with the drive so I can try to take some next steps to recover it.
Subject: 1TB Seagate Internal 3.5" Harddrive, sata interface. The drive itself has 3 partitions. 20GB for the Windows XP operating system, a 940GB for media storage, and 40GB for my website (WWW). I was initially able to recover most data from the media partition, but was not able to read from the 40GB WWW partition. All partitions are NTFS.
I put the drive in my sata dock connected via USB to my laptop to try and pull off the data. The laptop is a windows 8 laptop. It took a little bit, maybe 30 - 60 seconds, for the drive to be recognized which is much slower than usual for the dock. Disk Management in Windows 8 recognized all partitions correctly. I was able to open file explorer and browse the WWW partition folder structure. I immediate setup a destination and using windows 8 file explorer began to copy over the contents. The process started with Windows identifying the content to copy, and partway through this process stopped.
Since then, when I remount the drive Windows recognizes the partitions correctly, but they are noted as "RAW". Additionally when I try to open them in Windows explorer, I get a CRC (cyclical redundancy check) error and can no longer open the files.
I have attempted to use diskinternals ntfs and partition recover, with no success...no files found to be recovered.
Is this a part (circuit board, head, ???) problem in the drive I can correct. It seems like it is so close to being recoverable but something is stopping it. The drive sounds normal to my ears.
Any suggestions, tips, or guesses?
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