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bamasmith

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Hi, my hdd suddenly froze up one day and now refuses to boot. When trying to boot it says storage device failed, so I tried using gparted in Ubuntu. It gives an I/O error when trying to play with the windows 8 partition. Here's a SMART scan file I ran on the HDD.
http://pastebin.com/tN6nA7mp
Can somebody please help, there's important files on this hard drive.
 
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bamasmith

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I have a usb to sata connector that I use for my other hdd as stoarage, when I connected it to the failing hdd it doesn't ever load the files. I'll try booting up from the usb and post results.
 
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Hmm got some Reallocation sector counts but thats a good thing (failed sectors that it was able to get it data and move it)

But if you're getting I/O errors thats usually pretty serious. usually something bad with the PCB Board, Heads, or platters. Not sure if there is much you can do.

Have you tried putting it in another windows machine?
 
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drtweak

drtweak

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Oh wait my bad. Was reading the wrong one. No i'm pretty sure the drive is toast.

520 Uncorrectable sectors (the 00000000-0208 converted to Decimal is 520) Yea I don't know if you will be able to get anything off.

You can use this program. http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/v3/drdd.htm

Read the Drive from Back to front for best results on a failing drive. (Click Left Arrow for read direction)

then it will make a .DD image and use this program to mount it

http://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html

Only thing is DD will make a .DD file that is the same size of the hard drive. So if you have a 500 GB hard drive you WILL NEED 500GB OS SPACE TO SAVE THE IMAGE! This may or may not work. If this doesn't work then the hard drive is probably too far gone.

 
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Yea DataRescue DD has saved a few of my clients Data as well. Great thing is it makes an image of EVERY BIT of the hard drive (Hence why it makes a image file the same size as the hard drive) and you can even do File Recovery of files that were erased as well. Very handy tool AND ITS FREE.
 
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