Hard drive failed!

[windranger]

My second hard drive just failed!!

It's a Western Digital Green 1Gb SATA; I've been using it as a second hdd for storage, for about 1.5 years.

I can't see it with Explorer.

Error messages:
"E: is not accessible. Data error (cyclic redundancy error)"
and
"You need to format the disk before you can use it"

This happened suddenly, today, out of the blue.

When I go to Disk Management, after a long time it says that the drive is RAW and healthy!

I ran a test with SeaTools after rebooting and it shows that "test failed" and some codes.

Here are the images:
http://box.c.yimg.jp/res/box-s-m5p45coc7pieuy6gfsq7iyylnq-1001?uid=d8970534-b3e0-46b2-a5f2-22096f1f558a&etag=127004bd13639665552443

http://box.c.yimg.jp/res/box-s-m5p45coc7pieuy6gfsq7iyylnq-1001?uid=68a100c0-b607-4a0b-9869-e9eae2aafc2e&etag=c29ce28113639665568395

http://box.c.yimg.jp/res/box-s-m5p45coc7pieuy6gfsq7iyylnq-1001?uid=824e7587-ef94-495d-bb41-2c13f117e2c6&etag=eea839131363966558102131

The hdd gave little signs of problems before (like cyclic redundancy error), so at that time I ran check disk at boot, but it never happened to fail..

Please help, what can I do?

 

[phil22]

If SeaTools has pronounced the drive "Failed" there is only one way to retrieve data from it and that's by letting a professional data recovery service deal with it - but that is by no means cheap.

You should have kept all it's data backed up on a separate hard drive or on DVD media.

 

[Michael789]

Ask a special data recovery company or expert for help.