Cheers guys,
I am facing a weird issue here and hope someone could help me out.
I have an external Seagate Backup Portable drive that is failing. I assume it happened when last week the laptop (win 7-64) was hung up at shutdown and I had to press and hold the power button to shut it down. At reboot the drive appeared as RAW.
The thing now is this:
I detached the connector interface (SATA) and connected using SATA/USB adapter and the drive is accessible, and files are there and accessible normally.
The drive now has a lot of bad sectors that are increasing every day (from 1400 to 8900 in 5 days as per HD Sentinel).
To make my question simple here is an example of my impasse:
A video file on the drive is there at size X and I can play it. when copying it to a new drive it fails at a certain point (as surely part of it is on a bad sector). When using testdisk to resue it, it gets copied but its size is a smaller and thus it plays and then stops at a certain point.
Some files are fine and got copied even by the copy/paste in windows.
I tried Clonezilla from a live USB parted magic and it corrupted my destination brand new drive!
I need to copy the now working files to the new drive before the failing drive fails completely.
What I don't understand is how a file is accessible and playable like a video for example but couldn't be copied. If a part of it falls on a bad sector then I shouldn't be able to play it correctly or not even at all.
Is ddrescue/dd_rescue a good solution to try? like using the Bootmed live USB.
FYI, CHKDSK on the drive says File system NTFS and "unable to determine volume and status" and aborts. The drive appears in computer management as healthy, primary with an assigned letter. Testdisk reports bad MFT and its mirror.
Can anybody suggest a solution to salvage the readable/accessible but not copyable files ??
It's a 1TB of valuable data and I would appreciate any help.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
I am facing a weird issue here and hope someone could help me out.
I have an external Seagate Backup Portable drive that is failing. I assume it happened when last week the laptop (win 7-64) was hung up at shutdown and I had to press and hold the power button to shut it down. At reboot the drive appeared as RAW.
The thing now is this:
I detached the connector interface (SATA) and connected using SATA/USB adapter and the drive is accessible, and files are there and accessible normally.
The drive now has a lot of bad sectors that are increasing every day (from 1400 to 8900 in 5 days as per HD Sentinel).
To make my question simple here is an example of my impasse:
A video file on the drive is there at size X and I can play it. when copying it to a new drive it fails at a certain point (as surely part of it is on a bad sector). When using testdisk to resue it, it gets copied but its size is a smaller and thus it plays and then stops at a certain point.
Some files are fine and got copied even by the copy/paste in windows.
I tried Clonezilla from a live USB parted magic and it corrupted my destination brand new drive!
I need to copy the now working files to the new drive before the failing drive fails completely.
What I don't understand is how a file is accessible and playable like a video for example but couldn't be copied. If a part of it falls on a bad sector then I shouldn't be able to play it correctly or not even at all.
Is ddrescue/dd_rescue a good solution to try? like using the Bootmed live USB.
FYI, CHKDSK on the drive says File system NTFS and "unable to determine volume and status" and aborts. The drive appears in computer management as healthy, primary with an assigned letter. Testdisk reports bad MFT and its mirror.
Can anybody suggest a solution to salvage the readable/accessible but not copyable files ??
It's a 1TB of valuable data and I would appreciate any help.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
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