- Oct 3, 2015
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O.K., I'm in the middle of shuffling my hard drives around and ended up with an out-of-nowhere failure in one of the drives I hadn't touched. (*growl*) Because of all the moving of data, I have only a very partial (recoverable) backup of this drive. [Yeah, dumb, I know. I was actually literally setting up to run a new full backup on it when it froze. FML.]
The thing is, I'm not exactly sure what's wrong with it. It's bad enough that I assume it's at least partially physical (also the drive seems to get up to overly hot-to-the-touch when it runs for more than 20 mins or so [can't get a temp reading to be sure]).
However *some* of the partition software can see the two partitions on it. Sometimes. Which is what makes me hope there's some way to sector-by-sector copy the data or something for a Hail Mary save here.
O.K., summary: 2TB Seagate Drive being used for main data storage (the C:\ drive's a 128 SSD). 2 partitions on it, roughly 1 TB each. One time I reboot my computer...and it hangs. After much futzing around I establish that it's this drive: when it's attached, the computer will not load Windows. Take it out, all is well. (There are other HHDs in this machine, they're fine, but I disconnected them to get a clear shot on this one.)
I put the bad HDD in my USB dock and same problem. Leave it off until I'm in Windows (Pro 7), and I'm fine. I turn it on after that point, it spins up, no scratching or noise from it, but Windows can't see it. I pulled out a couple of partition fixers (AOMEI, EASEUS) but when the drive is running, they hang entirely when trying to scan for drives. But the little old Mini Partition Wizard I've had kicking around forever *can* actually see the drive and the partitions--but only after I (*wince*) turn off the drive while it's hung scanning.
I turn on the bad drive, open Mini Partition, it gets to 64% scanning for disks and hangs there. Leaving it open and powering off the USB dock, I get this:
#3 there is the bad drive in the dock, and this one tool sees it and sees two partitions. (The second is even labeled "V", which is correct--the other was originally "D", but whatever.) But it only un-hangs and shows that info *after* the drive's been powered down.
I'm assuming Windows is choking on the bad drive here. Is there a chance/way I can approach this from a command-line and copy off the info by sector? by disk? by partition? Would it likely be possible to recover it from the backup once I have, or are the partitions and all going to be too borked to make copying it off like this any use?
Advice?
The thing is, I'm not exactly sure what's wrong with it. It's bad enough that I assume it's at least partially physical (also the drive seems to get up to overly hot-to-the-touch when it runs for more than 20 mins or so [can't get a temp reading to be sure]).
However *some* of the partition software can see the two partitions on it. Sometimes. Which is what makes me hope there's some way to sector-by-sector copy the data or something for a Hail Mary save here.
O.K., summary: 2TB Seagate Drive being used for main data storage (the C:\ drive's a 128 SSD). 2 partitions on it, roughly 1 TB each. One time I reboot my computer...and it hangs. After much futzing around I establish that it's this drive: when it's attached, the computer will not load Windows. Take it out, all is well. (There are other HHDs in this machine, they're fine, but I disconnected them to get a clear shot on this one.)
I put the bad HDD in my USB dock and same problem. Leave it off until I'm in Windows (Pro 7), and I'm fine. I turn it on after that point, it spins up, no scratching or noise from it, but Windows can't see it. I pulled out a couple of partition fixers (AOMEI, EASEUS) but when the drive is running, they hang entirely when trying to scan for drives. But the little old Mini Partition Wizard I've had kicking around forever *can* actually see the drive and the partitions--but only after I (*wince*) turn off the drive while it's hung scanning.
I turn on the bad drive, open Mini Partition, it gets to 64% scanning for disks and hangs there. Leaving it open and powering off the USB dock, I get this:
#3 there is the bad drive in the dock, and this one tool sees it and sees two partitions. (The second is even labeled "V", which is correct--the other was originally "D", but whatever.) But it only un-hangs and shows that info *after* the drive's been powered down.
I'm assuming Windows is choking on the bad drive here. Is there a chance/way I can approach this from a command-line and copy off the info by sector? by disk? by partition? Would it likely be possible to recover it from the backup once I have, or are the partitions and all going to be too borked to make copying it off like this any use?
Advice?
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