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Yeah..
In fact, the offer to format may appear in the menu, but that doesn't mean that it can do it.
Considering how badly messed up this drive is, I somehow doubt that it could be successfully...
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Windows not booting when a new HD is plugged in could mean the BIOS had reset the boot order, and it's necessary to go into the BIOS setup to put the original HD at the head of the line.
It seems...
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As an update, to this thread I can no longer recommend spinrite as of version 6.0 the "current" version released in 2004! It just doesn't handle larger drives right nor newer computer bios properly....
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Run Seatools diagnostics on the drive.
http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/
Use recuva to salvage the data. Even though it is free, it is still one of the best.
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I would agree for the most part.
OP. It might be worth letting spinrite pound on it for a few days. It might be able to recover enough sectors to let it boot again to get some data off. Booting...
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Hi guys. I have been having major troubles with a new computer I built recently. I think I fixed most of them at the moment, but somewhere along the lines... I think my HDD might have died. It is a...
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Do you overclock your computer?
What are the SMART values/warning/errors?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.
Does the OCZ agility 3 SSD have the latest firmware?
What's the PATA/IDE mode...
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That's kool.
Did you say that Windows could read some files before you ran the regenerator?
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download r-studio
R studio will see drives that do not show up in windows it will scan thru the drive and find folders and files
http://www.r-studio.com/
it is free to have it look at your...
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So the weekend is here and I found some time to continue working on my problem here. Here's the latest update. I just ran a scan of HDD Regenerator.. and it showed a drive map that was full of bad...
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I've seen hard drives that needed disk checks, that worked normally after, but I have never seen an HD act like the OP's, then recover. When an HD gets that bad, you get all the data off that you...
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I agree that its only really enough usually to get data off. I think most of these programs are worth trying depending on the problem because they sometimes work. They don't usually make problems...
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One friend had what may have been an electronics-only problem with a hard disk but kept running it without getting it fixed. That probably turned the problem into a mechanical one as well, and the...
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Weekend Update:
Tried Rstudio. Kept getting this message: "Read disk J: at position ###### failed after 1 attempts. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error (1117)"...
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You generally can do more to diagnose/recover a hard drive with the drive connected directly to the computer by it's native interface, but the results you got with recuva are concerning.
For a...
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:iagree:
I figure the pros often do just that.
The trick is to have an identical hard drive to "steal" the parts from, plus a good steady hand, if any soldering is involved.
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I just pulled off 4+ GB of data off of a dead laptop drive ran HDD regenerator for about 1 day then R-studio
Windows wanted to format the drive R-studio showed multiple CRC errors but was able to...
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i like HDD regenerator too, had harddrives with ONLY few actual bad sectors, but HDtune scan shows almost the whole drive have bad sectors (for faster scan, i saw bad sectors then skip few GB right...
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Agreed, the only way the op is likely to get data back is by sending the drive in for professional recovery and paying the big bucks $$$.
My line of questioning earlier was trying to determine the...
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If the unrecovered data is highly valuable, then stop what you are doing and send it to the pros and forget returning it on guarantee.
Yes, I know this is a high priced solution, but at this point,...
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Well I think that means either the drive is also having i/o issues or more likely the partition table is corrupt.
It generally isn't advisable to do this, as anything but a measure of last resort,...
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Try Rstudio again.
Try SpinRite again after RStudio.
Try HDD Regenerator after SpinRite.
This is going to take some time unless you error immediately but perhaps one application will fix...
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Your descriptions are excellent.
I have seen hard drives follow a similar path and it is my opinion, that apart from some professional data recovery companies, there is nothing you can do, neither...
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I'd probably use ddrescue in linux (known as gddrescue in some distros) if I were looking for a free tool. Note ddrescue is not the same as dd_rescue or dd_rhelp the newer ddrescue supersedes these...
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You can definitely get better results by plugging the HD straight into the mobo, rather than through a USB port.
Any hard drive that is giving me a hard time, gets plugged in that way.
There is no...
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have you try stand by the computer, connect HDD, wake up computer.
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You guys probably know more about all this than I do, but I'll tell you what I think, for whatever it's worth.
It's been my experience that once a hard drive gets to the point that Windows offers to...
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no windows did not see the drive and disk manager wanted to initialize and format the disk it is pretty handy and I had better luck than with spinrite, I own both plus r-studio
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:iagree: Yes, all these recovery options are for, at least for me anyways, is an option to get as much data off that disk as possible before more data becomes corrupt or the drive just collapses....
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The problem I'm having is how? I've accepted that the hdd is screwed, and I'm trying to recover what I can from it then send it back under warranty. Everything I've tried so far has failed me:
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Thanks for all the help and info guys. Just want to say that I don't have anything precious on the drive.. I think. Mainly my collection of videos, music, pictures, movies, anime, etc that I've...
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It's hard to say, but it sounds more like your drive controller might have failed completely or a TVS diode is blown (essentially a fuse to protect your drive from power surges). On paper, you can...
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1. Seatools took a while to find my HDD. It would not allow me to do the "drive information" test. Failed short generic and long generic test.
2. Tried using recova on my HDD. I get a message...
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Ok guys, I'm back again. I haven't touched my hard drive for weeks now, but I have a new idea that I don't know if it would work or not.
The Master Boot Record (MBR). Does this have anything to do...
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The MBR is the Master Boot Record.
All it does is tell Windows to start up.
That is to say that the bios comes first, then it hands it over to the MBR that tells the OS to start up.
In other...
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From whichever point on the disk on it looks bad, really bad. Can we tell if these IO errors are physical? Physical errors will cause the reformat to lock up most likely.
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Yeah, the problem was that Windows won't boot with the HDD plugged in. So I had to use USB or hot plug, which was what I tried just a few minutes ago... and the result is that Windows does not detect...
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Before you attempt to format, try to make a backup image of the hard drive. See: http://www.runtime.org/gdbimage.htm for an example. There are ways of doing similar things with other tools you may...
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Thanks, if you had to choose one program to create a backup image, which would you choose? What would be an alternative?
Nope, but this sounds like a decent idea I'll have to try.
Probably...
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That's what I'm thinking too and if there is some precious data that still needs to be recovered, it is my opinion that playing around with it, is going worsen the damage and lessen the chances of...
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