What to do next? wait for bad blocks or initialize?

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messer
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What to do next? wait for bad blocks or initialize?

#1 Post by messer »

Hi,
I return after 4 years to this forum.
Geetings to all!

I am trying to recover files from a damaged apple partition.

The hd is severely damaged not sure what to do with it next.

- I can not boot the hd.
- I can not make a backup from main partition. After several hours there are no hd read or write activities when I look at the activity monitor app or computer crashed.
- quicksearch ineffective after several hours I stop testdisk.
- When I run photorec the recovered files are useless and photorec stops after a while or crashes the computer.
- spinning sounds the hd seem ok.

What possibly happened to damage the HD:
I remember that this HD was full atone point.
I think there is a problem when the HD is forced to write more than available space.
Also the HD got a big hit plus the laptop battery burned and it got heat.


So the process is utterly slow because of bad sectors.
What is the best approach to recover when HD is full of bad sectors?
Shall I initialize and recover from there?


Thank you for your reply.


testdisk.log

Mon Oct 30 16:34:17 2017
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Darwin, kernel 16.6.0 (Darwin Kernel Version 16.6.0: Fri Apr 14 16:21:16 PDT 2017; root:xnu-3789.6
Compiler: GCC 4.0
Compilation date: 2015-04-18T13:01:34
ext2fs lib: 1.42.8, ntfs lib: libntfs-3g, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20120504, curses lib: ncurses 5.4
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/disk0 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - 1954210120 sectors (RO), sector size=512
Disk /dev/disk2 - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - 3907029168 sectors (RO), sector size=512
Disk /dev/disk3 - 750 GB / 698 GiB - 1465149168 sectors, sector size=512
Disk /dev/rdisk0 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - 1954210120 sectors (RO), sector size=512
Disk /dev/rdisk1 - 999 GB / 930 GiB - 1951834368 sectors (RO), sector size=512
Disk /dev/rdisk2 - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - 3907029168 sectors (RO), sector size=512
Disk /dev/rdisk3 - 750 GB / 698 GiB - 1465149168 sectors, sector size=512

Partition table type (auto): EFI GPT
Disk /dev/rdisk3 - 750 GB / 698 GiB
Partition table type: EFI GPT
New options :
Dump : No
Align partition: Yes
Expert mode : Yes

Interface Advanced
hdr_size=92
hdr_lba_self=1465149167
hdr_lba_alt=1 (expected 1)
hdr_lba_start=34
hdr_lba_end=1465149134
hdr_lba_table=1465149135
hdr_entries=128
hdr_entsz=128
Trying alternate GPT
1 P EFI System 40 409639 409600 [EFI system partition]
2 P Unknown 409640 1463879591 1463469952 [Macintosh HD]
3 P Mac Boot 1463879592 1465149127 1269536 [Recovery HD]
1 P EFI System 40 409639 409600 [EFI system partition]
2 P Unknown 409640 1463879591 1463469952 [Macintosh HD]
3 P Mac Boot 1463879592 1465149127 1269536 [Recovery HD]

Interface Advanced
hdr_size=92
hdr_lba_self=1465149167
hdr_lba_alt=1 (expected 1)
hdr_lba_start=34
hdr_lba_end=1465149134
hdr_lba_table=1465149135
hdr_entries=128
hdr_entsz=128
Trying alternate GPT
1 P EFI System 40 409639 409600 [EFI system partition]
2 P Unknown 409640 1463879591 1463469952 [Macintosh HD]
3 P Mac Boot 1463879592 1465149127 1269536 [Recovery HD]
1 P EFI System 40 409639 409600 [EFI system partition]
2 P Unknown 409640 1463879591 1463469952 [Macintosh HD]
3 P Mac Boot 1463879592 1465149127 1269536 [Recovery HD]

Analyse Disk /dev/rdisk3 - 750 GB / 698 GiB - 1465149168 sectors
hdr_size=92
hdr_lba_self=1465149167
hdr_lba_alt=1 (expected 1)
hdr_lba_start=34
hdr_lba_end=1465149134
hdr_lba_table=1465149135
hdr_entries=128
hdr_entsz=128
Trying alternate GPT
1 P EFI System 40 409639 409600 [EFI system partition]
2 P Unknown 409640 1463879591 1463469952 [Macintosh HD]
3 P Mac Boot 1463879592 1465149127 1269536 [Recovery HD]
Current partition structure:
Trying alternate GPT
1 P EFI System 40 409639 409600 [EFI system partition]
2 P Unknown 409640 1463879591 1463469952 [Macintosh HD]
3 P Mac Boot 1463879592 1465149127 1269536 [Recovery HD]

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