HDD Crashed

[endlesszeal]

Well I have a 160GB PATA Seagate that bit the dust and like the moron I am, I didnt make any backups of the files. Basically the whole thing was loaded with family pictures, animes, etc...

I tried booting it as a primary slave. The results were less than fantastic. It took me nearly 30 minutes to get into Windows and when I right-clicked on the drive, it gave me an error and need to format.

Someone suggested SpinRite and helped me out with it, but no success. The drive is highlighted Red and said the BIOS is not letting SpinRite access it.

I ran SeaTools on it and it had a ton of bad sectors, over 20.

So Ive exhausted my resources and out of ideas. Any suggestions or programs except giving it to a pro for like $10,000? If this is it, then Imma smack myself, take my loss and RMA the drive. Backing up >>> Me

Thanks guys in advance.

 

[alzan]

Go to hddguru.com and download mhdd, he's got bootable floppy and CD .iso images, make a bootable disk with mhdd and providing it detects the hard drive, select the drive and press F4 for to select drive scan, and turn Remap Bad sectors On, then press F4 to start the scan.

If that doesn't work, a recovery service might, I would guesstimate anywhere from $1500 - $4000.

 

[MadAmos]

If the data on the drive is important and worth the expense data recovery is probably the answer. If you keep trying damage may occour that wioll make any kind of recovery more difficult or impossible. That being said I have had excellent results with Dr Dave and at a more reasonable cost than some of the more well known places.

Amos