I have an old 500GB western digital hard drive it is one of 4 hard drives in my system and its failed.
Currently, I was getting a "Master/slave error" when booting with that drive. This made no sense since all my drives are SATA. It is detected by the BIOS so its not totally dead.
I have connected the drive by USB using a hard drive enclosure. The drive makes soft clicking noises however it is sort of detected.
In windows management it shows up but says its 0 MB capacity. When I try to initialize it, I get an error saying "Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
In hard disk sentinel, it does see the drive. It freezes the program for a few minutes each time it tries to read and says the status is unknown and also says its 0 MB and no further info is available. I also can't run any tests on it.
Finally to my question, I might have some pictures or files on this drive that I want (not positive). So trying to see if anyone has ideas on how I can recover the data on the drive without paying for a data recovery place. I don't really need the drive itself.
Currently, I was getting a "Master/slave error" when booting with that drive. This made no sense since all my drives are SATA. It is detected by the BIOS so its not totally dead.
I have connected the drive by USB using a hard drive enclosure. The drive makes soft clicking noises however it is sort of detected.
In windows management it shows up but says its 0 MB capacity. When I try to initialize it, I get an error saying "Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
In hard disk sentinel, it does see the drive. It freezes the program for a few minutes each time it tries to read and says the status is unknown and also says its 0 MB and no further info is available. I also can't run any tests on it.
Finally to my question, I might have some pictures or files on this drive that I want (not positive). So trying to see if anyone has ideas on how I can recover the data on the drive without paying for a data recovery place. I don't really need the drive itself.
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