So I have an external hard drive that I've plugged into a Windows 7 OS with a SATA/IDE Converter. In both Windows Explorer and Disk Management, I can see two drives appear, one called Recovery which is just recovery files but the large space is called OS and there is a letter assigned to it. I have tried numerous recovery software but they don't show up in it and when I click on the drives, just freezes the system. Can't read. Close but yet so far. Anything else I can try here to recover data on this corrupted hard drive?
Recovering data from a corrupted external hard drive
- Thread starter gtrainer
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Hi
I would recomend trying western digital data lifeguard for windows software
(Even if not wd brand drive)
If the drive has physical errors or faulty electronics only a data recovery company is likely to be able to help you recover data
If no damage found by a full surface test then try chkdisk on the drive(s)
I presume you mean a sata usb bridge not sata to ide converter and if drive exceeds 2 TB then the adaper supports large modern hard disks
Testdisk photorecovery suite from cgsecurity.org can repair damaged partition tables and recover data even from formatted disks
Regards
Mike Barnes
I would recomend trying western digital data lifeguard for windows software
(Even if not wd brand drive)
If the drive has physical errors or faulty electronics only a data recovery company is likely to be able to help you recover data
If no damage found by a full surface test then try chkdisk on the drive(s)
I presume you mean a sata usb bridge not sata to ide converter and if drive exceeds 2 TB then the adaper supports large modern hard disks
Testdisk photorecovery suite from cgsecurity.org can repair damaged partition tables and recover data even from formatted disks
Regards
Mike Barnes
From your description it is likely you are dealing with a failing drive, So any recovery software that operates at the filesystem level is destined to fail. If this is high value data seek the assistance of a data recovery lab.
If you want to try recovering yourself then I can suggest you try Linux ddrescue to make a sector level clone image copy of the failing drive onto a known good drive. Then you can use your data recovery software on the good drive image.
If you want to try recovering yourself then I can suggest you try Linux ddrescue to make a sector level clone image copy of the failing drive onto a known good drive. Then you can use your data recovery software on the good drive image.
The drives are detected in both File Manager and Disk Management. However, whenever I try to run any recovery software, it gets hung up when scanning for the drives. So while I can see them, no recovery software can identify the drives, and I have tried several good ones. So recovery software is out.
So what I want to know is this a lost cause? Why is the drives showing up at all, if I have bad or corrupted sectors, is it normal to see the drives appear? Could I try anything else like booting into another operating system?
Any help here would be most appreciated.
Thank you.
So what I want to know is this a lost cause? Why is the drives showing up at all, if I have bad or corrupted sectors, is it normal to see the drives appear? Could I try anything else like booting into another operating system?
Any help here would be most appreciated.
Thank you.
If you google around there are several guides. Here's the manual... https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html
You may want to practice using ddrescue on a spare drive to get a feel for how it works.
You may want to practice using ddrescue on a spare drive to get a feel for how it works.
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