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Secondary HDD is with user folders has failed. What are my options?

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  • SSD
  • Storage
  • Hard Drives
  • Windows 8
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October 2, 2014 7:34:02 AM

I used Sean's SSD guide to installing windows 8 on my SSD, and used (if I remember correctly) a junction command to have my user folders be placed on a secondary 250GB HDD. I recently began experiencing multiple game crashes. I checked event log and it showed my HDD having hundreds of errors per second before the crash. I ran a WD diagnostic test and got "too many bad sectors cannot run test." I immediately shut down and unplugged it the SATA data and power cords from my HDD.

I booted up and then realized all my user folders were gone (obviously).

So my question is, how can I relocate my user folders back to my SSD where the OS is installed? And would I be able to relocate the ACTUAL user folders from my "failed" HDD, or will I have to just start from scratch? Currently, I'm running Windows 8.1. I say "failed" because if I remember correctly, it wasn't as if after my crash that all my folders were gone, the diagnostic test just showed too many bad sectors - at which point I stopped using the drive. So there is the chance my user folders are fine, but I don't know if moving data with bad sectors will mess things up on my SSD.

I also have a 3TB HDD, I could relocate the user folders to a partition on there as well (if that's a better idea).

I imagine my 250GB HDD is done for good. If not, please let me know, I just would rather not use a potentially failure prone drive for anything anymore.

Please let me know if any more information is needed.

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October 2, 2014 2:06:28 PM

If the user fold is only date files, and you can use the regular data recovery software try to recover it, but I think you may have other files like programs or games files, then those will be gone forever if you don't use the professional recovery services.
The free data recovery software like this: http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-reco...
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October 2, 2014 11:48:01 PM

Hi there longhorns2422,

I would agree with cin19 and say that you can use some recovery software and try to recover your data. Though, keep in mind that your safest bet is a data recovery company services.
Regarding your question whether you can transfer bad sectors, I would say no.You just can end up with corrupted data, since the data wasn't recoverable from the original drive.

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October 3, 2014 5:32:58 AM

Thanks for your response guys. I'll see what I can do.
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