Can this drive be saved?

[wraith3k]

Trying to fix a drive for a friend of mine, a western digital 120 GB IDE. Original problem was it wouldn't boot anymore, and recovery console would say 'an error occurred during directory enumeration' if you tried to use DIR on it. So, after some research, I found this could be fixed by fixmbr, fixboot, and chkdsk /r. Unfortunately the drive said it had some physical problems while this was running, and would stop checking it.

I tried slaving the drive, but this would cause the computer to slow down to a crawl. I mean it literally took 15 minutes for the computer to finally get into Windows, and after all that the drive wouldn't even show up in explorer, so forget using data-recovery software. Finally, after trying a few different things, the drive started making the dreaded click-of-death sound when turning on the computer.

So I'm guessing this drive is just dead, but maybe someone has an idea? Data recovery centers charge an arm and a leg so that's basically out of the question.

thanks all

 

[oneshot47]

Ive got one just like it, an 80 gb. Ive given up on it. Unless theres some critical information on it you want theres no reason to try any expensive data recovery things. Much easier to just get a new one 😉

 

[MtnMan]

Yea, that's why backups are recommended BEFORE the drive goes bad.

 

[Xenaki]

chances are yes you can.

if you have a copy of Ghost, copy the whole drive to a new one, if ghost doesnt let you use the flags /bfc=alargenumber and /fro

 

[powerMarkymark]

SpinRite 6.0 is what you need.

Marc

 

[jadinolf]

Spinrite 6

http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

 

[TGHI]

I don't think anything can save the drive...sounds like you have an error on track 0....which means your drive is now a coaster, or conversation piece, what have you. I've seen it happen, and had it happened to me, too - try and RMA it.

edit: grammar

 

[wraith3k]

Does spinrite work even if the drive is no longer detected by Windows?

 

[Arcanedeath]

Spinrite works if the drive can be seen by the bios in most cases.