Hard drive stuff up - help appreciated!
Posted: 26 Apr 2015, 05:34
Ok guys, I need some help : (
Have a 2TB HDD (Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001) acting as D:/ with Win7 installed on SSD (C:/).
Disc mainly contains programs, documents and photos. No backup available (mistake 1).
Was previously working fine, however last week I decided I’d try overclocking my CPU a little using ASRock’s utility. Adjusted the voltages, clicked apply….frozen screen (mistake 2).
Rebooted, turns out my PC can no longer read my D drive. Everything else seems to work fine (albeit any programs dependent on D drive are broken).
Had a look in device mananger -> hard drive shows up as uninitialized. I click yes, of course I want to damn initialise it! (mistake 3).
Computer asks me whether to initialise it was MBR or GPT. I do a bit of googling, find out MBR only supports partitions up to 2TB in size, however GPT is newer and not restricted by this. My HDD is spot on 2tb, and google doesn’t really know whether the ST2000DM001 is MBR or GPT, but I cleverly realise that my HDD is part of a family of disks that include 4tb HDDs, therefore logic and common sense dictate that my HDD must use GPT too, right? I got ahead and initialise my HDD as GPT (mistake 4).
The good news is, I don’t think I’ve made mistake 5 yet.
The bad news is, despite days of tests and data recovery programs I haven’t made a whole lot of progress. Using EaseUS data recovery I’ve managed to get about 75% of the raw data, but much of it has lost its file paths, file names, and is largely useless to me like that. I think the full thing is largely recoverable, but I just need to tread carefully. It seems re-initialising as MBR and trying again would result in complete data loss?
Someone please help.
I have a spare HDD, if someone knows a way to mirror my broken HDD to it and experiement off the clone that would also be appreciated.
My results so far: (I’ll add in screenshots later if necessary, my snip tool seems to be broken).
Disk management
Picks up missing disk as ‘Disk 1, Basic, 1862.89GB, Online, 100% Unallocated)
AOMEI partition assistant
‘Check Bad Sectors’ with AOMEI partition assistant: (see screenshot) – took 80 hours to perform(!)
Checking...
Bad sector at: 1612820176
Bad sector at: 1612820177
Bad sector at: 1612820178
Bad sector at: 1612820179
Bad sector at: 1612820180
Bad sector at: 1612820181
Bad sector at: 1612820182
Bad sector at: 1612820183
Bad sector at: 1612823296
Bad sector at: 1612823297
Bad sector at: 1612823298
Bad sector at: 1612823299
Bad sector at: 1612823300
Bad sector at: 1612823301
Bad sector at: 1612823302
Bad sector at: 1612823303
Checking finished.
EaseUS Partition Master – Partition recovery wizard
- Returmed 29 ‘Deleted’ partitions, some EXT3, some FAT12, ranging between 360KB and 886MB in size.
- Most seem empty? I havem’t clicked ‘proceed’ as afraid will lose everything
- Some partitions are labelled things like ‘dban-1.0.6’, ‘FREEDOS’, and ‘NBGBOOT’ and ‘GParted-EFI’. Preview shows the odd file in some of the labelled partitions, nothing of significance to myself.
Testdisk-7.0: Log as follows:
Thu Apr 9 22:33:33 2015
Command line: TestDisk
TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, March 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.7, Cygwin 1007.25
Compilation date: 2015-04-09T12:52:46
ext2fs lib: 1.42.8, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20120504
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sda)=120034123776
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdb)=2000398934016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdc)=3000592977920
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdd)=3000592977920
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sde)=1000204886016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive0)=120034123776
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive1)=2000398934016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive2)=3000592977920
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive3)=3000592977920
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive4)=1000204886016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\C:)=119926685696
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\D:)=317532160
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\G:)=624099328
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\H:)=3000584577024
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\I:)=1000204828672
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\K:)=3000579915776
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sda - 120 GB / 111 GiB - CHS 14593 255 63, sector size=512 - SanDisk SDSSDX120GG2, S/N:212133040072, FW:R112
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63, sector size=512 - ST2000DM 001-1CH164, S/N:1S0E2SH3, FW:CC43
Disk /dev/sdc - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 45600 255 63, sector size=4096 - Seagate Expansion Desk, S/N:NA4LLCCN, FW:070B
Disk /dev/sdd - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 45600 255 63, sector size=4096 - Seagate Backup+ Desk, S/N:NA5K6Y7A, FW:0508
Disk /dev/sde - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63, sector size=512 - BUFFALO HD-PCTU3, FW:0001
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 45600 255 63, sector size=4096 - Seagate Expansion Desk, S/N:NA4LLCCN, FW:070B
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive3 - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 45600 255 63, sector size=4096 - Seagate Backup+ Desk, S/N:NA5K6Y7A, FW:0508
Drive D: - 317 MB / 302 MiB - CHS 75 64 32, sector size=2048 - HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS90, S/N:WKCFG60L20 1, FW:IN01
Drive G: - 624 MB / 595 MiB - CHS 148 64 32, sector size=2048 - HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW CH12LS28, S/N:9KCPFC4944 9, FW:1.00
Drive H: - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 45600 255 63, sector size=4096 - Seagate Expansion Desk, S/N:NA4LLCCN, FW:070B
Drive K: - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 45599 255 63, sector size=4096 - Seagate Backup+ Desk, S/N:NA5K6Y7A, FW:0508
Partition table type (auto): EFI GPT
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - ST2000DM 001-1CH164
Partition table type: Intel
Analyse Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=256 sector=63
check_part_i386 1 type EE: no test
Current partition structure:
1 P EFI GPT 0 0 2 267349 89 4 4294967295
Warning: Bad ending head (CHS and LBA don't match)
No partition is bootable
Have a 2TB HDD (Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001) acting as D:/ with Win7 installed on SSD (C:/).
Disc mainly contains programs, documents and photos. No backup available (mistake 1).
Was previously working fine, however last week I decided I’d try overclocking my CPU a little using ASRock’s utility. Adjusted the voltages, clicked apply….frozen screen (mistake 2).
Rebooted, turns out my PC can no longer read my D drive. Everything else seems to work fine (albeit any programs dependent on D drive are broken).
Had a look in device mananger -> hard drive shows up as uninitialized. I click yes, of course I want to damn initialise it! (mistake 3).
Computer asks me whether to initialise it was MBR or GPT. I do a bit of googling, find out MBR only supports partitions up to 2TB in size, however GPT is newer and not restricted by this. My HDD is spot on 2tb, and google doesn’t really know whether the ST2000DM001 is MBR or GPT, but I cleverly realise that my HDD is part of a family of disks that include 4tb HDDs, therefore logic and common sense dictate that my HDD must use GPT too, right? I got ahead and initialise my HDD as GPT (mistake 4).
The good news is, I don’t think I’ve made mistake 5 yet.
The bad news is, despite days of tests and data recovery programs I haven’t made a whole lot of progress. Using EaseUS data recovery I’ve managed to get about 75% of the raw data, but much of it has lost its file paths, file names, and is largely useless to me like that. I think the full thing is largely recoverable, but I just need to tread carefully. It seems re-initialising as MBR and trying again would result in complete data loss?
Someone please help.
I have a spare HDD, if someone knows a way to mirror my broken HDD to it and experiement off the clone that would also be appreciated.
My results so far: (I’ll add in screenshots later if necessary, my snip tool seems to be broken).
Disk management
Picks up missing disk as ‘Disk 1, Basic, 1862.89GB, Online, 100% Unallocated)
AOMEI partition assistant
‘Check Bad Sectors’ with AOMEI partition assistant: (see screenshot) – took 80 hours to perform(!)
Checking...
Bad sector at: 1612820176
Bad sector at: 1612820177
Bad sector at: 1612820178
Bad sector at: 1612820179
Bad sector at: 1612820180
Bad sector at: 1612820181
Bad sector at: 1612820182
Bad sector at: 1612820183
Bad sector at: 1612823296
Bad sector at: 1612823297
Bad sector at: 1612823298
Bad sector at: 1612823299
Bad sector at: 1612823300
Bad sector at: 1612823301
Bad sector at: 1612823302
Bad sector at: 1612823303
Checking finished.
EaseUS Partition Master – Partition recovery wizard
- Returmed 29 ‘Deleted’ partitions, some EXT3, some FAT12, ranging between 360KB and 886MB in size.
- Most seem empty? I havem’t clicked ‘proceed’ as afraid will lose everything
- Some partitions are labelled things like ‘dban-1.0.6’, ‘FREEDOS’, and ‘NBGBOOT’ and ‘GParted-EFI’. Preview shows the odd file in some of the labelled partitions, nothing of significance to myself.
Testdisk-7.0: Log as follows:
Thu Apr 9 22:33:33 2015
Command line: TestDisk
TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, March 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 7 (7601) SP1
Compiler: GCC 4.7, Cygwin 1007.25
Compilation date: 2015-04-09T12:52:46
ext2fs lib: 1.42.8, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20120504
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sda)=120034123776
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdb)=2000398934016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdc)=3000592977920
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdd)=3000592977920
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sde)=1000204886016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive0)=120034123776
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive1)=2000398934016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive2)=3000592977920
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive3)=3000592977920
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive4)=1000204886016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\C:)=119926685696
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\D:)=317532160
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\G:)=624099328
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\H:)=3000584577024
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\I:)=1000204828672
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\K:)=3000579915776
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sda - 120 GB / 111 GiB - CHS 14593 255 63, sector size=512 - SanDisk SDSSDX120GG2, S/N:212133040072, FW:R112
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63, sector size=512 - ST2000DM 001-1CH164, S/N:1S0E2SH3, FW:CC43
Disk /dev/sdc - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 45600 255 63, sector size=4096 - Seagate Expansion Desk, S/N:NA4LLCCN, FW:070B
Disk /dev/sdd - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 45600 255 63, sector size=4096 - Seagate Backup+ Desk, S/N:NA5K6Y7A, FW:0508
Disk /dev/sde - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63, sector size=512 - BUFFALO HD-PCTU3, FW:0001
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 45600 255 63, sector size=4096 - Seagate Expansion Desk, S/N:NA4LLCCN, FW:070B
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive3 - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 45600 255 63, sector size=4096 - Seagate Backup+ Desk, S/N:NA5K6Y7A, FW:0508
Drive D: - 317 MB / 302 MiB - CHS 75 64 32, sector size=2048 - HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS90, S/N:WKCFG60L20 1, FW:IN01
Drive G: - 624 MB / 595 MiB - CHS 148 64 32, sector size=2048 - HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW CH12LS28, S/N:9KCPFC4944 9, FW:1.00
Drive H: - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 45600 255 63, sector size=4096 - Seagate Expansion Desk, S/N:NA4LLCCN, FW:070B
Drive K: - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - CHS 45599 255 63, sector size=4096 - Seagate Backup+ Desk, S/N:NA5K6Y7A, FW:0508
Partition table type (auto): EFI GPT
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - ST2000DM 001-1CH164
Partition table type: Intel
Analyse Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=256 sector=63
check_part_i386 1 type EE: no test
Current partition structure:
1 P EFI GPT 0 0 2 267349 89 4 4294967295
Warning: Bad ending head (CHS and LBA don't match)
No partition is bootable