First of all i would like to say hi to all and thanks for this free software.
I have a 10 years old son and 6 years of photos on the drive that turned raw.
Things i can tell so far - disk is 500 gb single partition ntfs/gpt on Windows 10 x64.
Fix disk on windows startup hangs at stage 2, chkdsk f: /f hangs at stage 2.
In testdisk i can't do analyse because it hangs at check cylinder at 99%. Managed to enter in drive options and bot sector is "ok". First a time i tried to "list" it gave me the input /output error second time i managed to list all files and folders on drive, tried to copy one small folder with couple ple of files, copied files resulted same name but 0 kb.
What can i do?
500gb hdd turned raw, please help
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Re: 500gb hdd turned raw, please help
It looks like there are bad sectors. You can try clone the disk to a new empty one using ddrescue as described in https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf
Once it's done, remove the original disk and try to recover your data (chkdsk, testdisk...) from the clone.
Contacting a data recovery company may be safer as it's an hardware problem.
Once it's done, remove the original disk and try to recover your data (chkdsk, testdisk...) from the clone.
Contacting a data recovery company may be safer as it's an hardware problem.
Re: 500gb hdd turned raw, please help
I am running ddrescue from ubuntu. Estimated time 12 days. After 2 days i have 0 bad sectors and 0 bad areas but i have 3500 read errors. 80 gb recovered. Should i keep going another 10 days with so many errors or try something else?
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Re: 500gb hdd turned raw, please help
What is "trying something else"?
Re: 500gb hdd turned raw, please help
I don't really know what, need to get photos back somehow.
Is it possible to mount partial immage from dd rescue or doci need to wait until is complete?
Is it possible to mount partial immage from dd rescue or doci need to wait until is complete?
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Re: 500gb hdd turned raw, please help
Update :
Cloning stoped with an error at 30% recovered, tried to restart few times and nothing. I turned of pc and i disconnected corrupted drive but i left destination disk attached, when i restarted pc windows performed "fix" on destination disk and when i logged in i had all all recovered files. I was so happy .
What will happen if i go back to ubuntu and try to squeeze some more files on backwards maybe? I guess that the immage changed after windows fix and i risk to overwrite files.
Cloning stoped with an error at 30% recovered, tried to restart few times and nothing. I turned of pc and i disconnected corrupted drive but i left destination disk attached, when i restarted pc windows performed "fix" on destination disk and when i logged in i had all all recovered files. I was so happy .
What will happen if i go back to ubuntu and try to squeeze some more files on backwards maybe? I guess that the immage changed after windows fix and i risk to overwrite files.
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Re: 500gb hdd turned raw, please help
You missed to copy your recovery hard drive before applying chkdsk.
Basically you simply destroyed your ability to continue your recovery process which is a bad thing given the high error rate on your failing hard drive.
If you had applied chkdsk on a second copy - which would have been produced very quickly compared to your recovery process - you would simple continue to extract more data from your failing drive.
Despite your success your case is a good example what not to do.