Hello,

My PC can´t open a 2Tb Seagate External Drive (If I go to Windows Disk Management I can see the Drive)
Im scanning with HDD Regenerator, I Connected the Drive as Internal using a Sata cable.

The scanning is running very slowly, here is what I got so far

Time: 141 hours
Progress: 8.40%
Scanned 160.400Mb (328.499.979 sectors)
0 bad sectors found
1.521.861 delays detected

I often see in forums that 1 or 2 delays are normal, but this drive have 1.5 Million delays in only 8.4%
What means to have this huge amount of delays?

Also I tried Ontrack EasyRecovery and warns me that I have bad sectors on my Disk, and when I scan it say that the completion time will be 2460 days

Anyone have suggestions?
Thank you

With hdd degenerator, you will only kill the drive earlier. At least use Seagate´s own software for diagnosing it.

The drive probably have problems, and you need to decide if you want(ed) your data or not.

why kill the drive earlier?

I used SeaTools, the S.M.A.R.T scan says is Ok
The Fix Test warns me that I have to have the data backed up before do any testing

Seagate, already with problems, being tortured.

If the drive is already failing, the excessive access made by that program will increase other problems present in the drive.

Connect it to a computer, and try to access it with dmde . If possible, copy the data you need to other disks.

Good.
Why? What is your goal with the drive/data on it?

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Ok, thanks

Im running DMDE and got a WinError 1117, sent me to Help: Device I/O Dialog Box
I think I have to do a Device Cloning



I used HDD regenerator because 6 years ago I had a problem with a external drive that got fixed using that software, and the Drive is still working fine

This drive is from a uncle, he needs to recover some documents from there, he uses that drive for everything (work documents and watch movies on the TV) and I know he has a heavy hand for electronics, I dont have a clue if the drives got hit, but I know that he unplugs the drive always without clicking the safe unplug button in windows

Alright, thank you.
For file recovery purpose, never ever run HDDRegenerator, SpinRite and the likes. It just does not do any good. It forces the drive to reallocated bad sectors, which is a bad practice for file recovery. We don't want this to happen. Rather, we want to prevent it.

Indeed, clone first, if you have the resources, know-how, etc.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=36600

Overall, it would be best to understand how bad in shape the drive is. Have you run a SMART report?

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Thanks for your responses, I did a SMART scan using SeaTools, Victoria and HDDSCAN

I heard about avoiding SpinRite, but I didn´t knew HDDregenerator was on the same list.

I Did the VERIFY test on Victoria, I get Block ******** Error: ABRT ,scanning at the start and at the ending.

I Don´t have a TTL adaptor

About paying for Data Recovery service, how messed up the economy is in my country, paying for the service is almost impossible.

Getting all BLUE blocks in Victoria means that the HDD is dead? even when the SMART says is ok?

It is not completely dead, yet. But the firmware has a lot of problems, as it can't read user data area. Maybe, mechanical problem as well.
Need help by a specialist at this point, sorry.

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Hard Disk Drive, SSD, USB Drive and RAID Data Recovery Specialist in Massachusetts

oh crap
thanks anyway for the help, I apreciate it

I will contact a professional for this