Hard drive troubles

[mmike99]

Hi there, have this hard drive that has bad sector problems. Its recognized in the bios, but does not show up on the desktop. the drive itself runs(can feel it), and have used spinrite(said immediate date recovery needed, and also HDDreg, also tryed to regenerate sectors. Should i try to format, and than do a file recovery on this, or any suggestion would be helpful, thanks

 

[Wamphryi]

Well if you format it you wont be recovering any data on it at least not without a speciality program. Copy all the data you can off the drive. Wipe it after that and then bin it. Replace with a new drive. Bad sectors are caused by head crashes on the platters normally. Once a drive has done this it will likely do it again making it a very unreliable proposition.

 

[Ubrales]

If the drive is bad (it says it is) recover whatever data you can and then replace the drive. Do not use the drive in any way after that. Your data is worth much more than the drive. If you do a format, you will lose all data.

 

[mmike99]

Hi guys, Was thinkin that myself..... So what program gives me the best option for data recovery. the ones ive tryed are not reading the drive...the bios is...weird..hence the idea of format,........

 

[Wamphryi]

If the BIOS is not functioning correctly and Data Recovery programs are not reading the drive you have probably lost your data. Taking it to some kind of service facility may produce results but don't count on it. There are normally high charges and no guarantees.

 

[mmike99]

Hi Wamp, well the bios is reading the drive, and the post message states failure...just wondering why the desktop is not showing it? just wondering what a facility might be able to do also? would the clean the platters?

 

[Wamphryi]

The facility may be able to recover data off the drive. If you format the drive then data will be lost as the drive will be formatted and that results in the OS seeing an empty drive. So formatting the drive is out of the question. If data recovery programs cannot read the drive then it sounds like the drive is damaged beyond recovery. As I said a specialist may be able to recover data but IMHO I think that is unlikely and the cost is prohibitive.

 

[mmike99]

Im totally agreeing with you on this one at this point..........tryed different ones,....no go..