Recover data from faulty HDD

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mpc007

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Follow up on my other thread, the error I had led me to the fact that my old hard drive basically developed so many errors (UNC in MHDD, more than 25 over the first 30 percent of the scan) that its not usuable anymore. I have a replacement ready, but I'm not sure what the best way to retrieve the data is since its only partly approachable in Windows (only one partition show the blue bar beneath it, others seen as RAW) and trying to get in usually locks it up.

Because of that, Windows Partition Manager can't create a correct image and loads forever. Because of that, any recovery software that tries to approach the same way will probably freeze / lock up as well. How do I pull this off?

EDIT: Trying to scan the RAW partitions with TestDisk gives me a read error, just as I predicted.
 
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geofelt

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Seagate and other drive vendors will have specific diagnostic/repair utilities for their drives.
I think for Seagate, it is seatools.
You could try that.

I imagind that you do not have any backup or you would not be posting.
Lesson: Have anything you value backed up on an external device.

If you have anything that you MUST recover, there are commercial recovery outfits that can do the job.
But, they will be expensive.

Since some of the data is readable, you could copy that to your new drive and abandon the rest.
 
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mpc007

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What do you mean, the HDD contains an old W7 installation and lots of program files / normal data. Backups I had were on that drive.

I dont need the files themselves neccesarily, but I'd like to retrieve the file system at least so that I can see which folders I had on it..

SeaTools doesn't even list my drive so I guess thats pretty weak.
 
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ss202sl

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"Backups I had were on that drive."

Those aren't backups. At most they'd be local copies of the data.

Put your backups on something external to the box - either another box, or external device - and even better would be to have a copy somewhere completely off-site.

Backups aren't any good unless you can access them.
 
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mpc007

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Call them what you want. My most important text files are in the cloud anyways. If I have to triple backup any piece of data that I have I'm forced to spend hundreds of euros on external drives, I simply can not do that. Not everyone has a budget to high heaven.

Anyways, I'm not here to be taught a lesson about the importance of backups; I'm here to ask what my options are in case of a worn-out drive. Can I make a copy of the whole partition somehow, and then retrieve data from that?
 
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