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HELP! - Hardrive Crash

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ciproxr

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ok my seagate barracuda 160gb is done. i was using my pc and all the sudden it got really slow out of no where.

I figured it happens and maybe a reboot will fix it. when i reboot XP wont start. I go into ubuntu as I have a dual boot with a 80gb western digital as the master HD and i cant access the partition. I tried the diskcheck utility on windows installation cd , takes an hour and i dont think it did much.

Then i download the seagate diagnostic tool and check for errors and my drive fails miserably. I could not even finish the test , it just stops.

seems like it has alot of bad sectors.

so here what i did, i deleted the partition through seagate diagnostics. then i was able to boot into windows fine. than I created a partition with partition magic so i can access the driver (i did a quick format) then i downloaded getmydata back trial. It found alot of files for me but it gets stuck at two percent than my computer freezes. I tried 1 more utility and that one froze too.


What do i do ? is my data gone for good ? is there a utility that get mark out bad sectors so i can at least collect whatever data is left ?

windows check disk didnt seem to do anything 🙁

help please
 
So if you use the seagate barracuda 160gb as a secondary hard drive and boot up XP you can't access it?

I take it from what you've said that you boot into Windows on the 80gb WD drive?

Well if you can boot up XP, but it doesn't see the drive, you might try using EasyRecoveryProfessional.

http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/

I know that if the drive is readable you can get data off of it, but if Windows doesn't see the drive, I'm not sure if it will work.

I don't know if the trial will let you recover, so you might have to do some Google surfing to get this, if you know what I mean. 😉

Oh it doesn't matter if you have 50% bad sectors, you'll still be able to read the other 50% of the drive. Next time a drive dies, don't mess with it, turning it on, and off and trying to run all sorts of check on it. Get it plugged right away into a system as a secondary drive, and you'll be able to recover something, IF it's only bad sectors. It's pretty rare that all sectors on a drive die, hehe. 🙂

If you can't read the drive, then something else is wrong, not just bad sectors.

ALOHA
 
I created a new partition on it and and xp can see the drive. im pretty sure the drive is partially useable, as far as i know at least

the problem seems to be bad sectors freeze the recovery software and than the operating system.

seagate diagnostics detected at least 140 errors befire it marked my drive as failed.

I am using spinrite at the moment, will see how it goes, so far it has no frozen and is using the dynastat data recovery thingy.

any other advice would be appreciated, if i can get 10% of my data back thats fine with me.
 
if a bad sector is cause the freeze one trick in to create is reduce the size of the partition for a bit each time it happends.
Also I heard freezing the harddisk can help (protected from the damp ) run a esata cable from the freezer to the pc and try that
 
Software isn't going to work. Your going to have to take it to a data recovery professional. You could try the freezer trick, it will work if it's a heat issue but if it's a head crash you're in trouble. I tried CBL data recovery in the past and they were able to save all of my data. http://www.cbltech.com
 
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