I'm doing a software image of a friends drive (dd equivalent from both Windows and Linux)
Reads ok at first, but quite a few bad/unreadable sectors (not fully checked if any pattern to these yet)
reads about 100MB's worth then stops responding / goes not ready
Scan with Victoria shows the same (goes Abrt! after scanning approx. 100-300MB at any location on the drive)

Can power cycle the drive and read another 100MB's worth approx.

Not sure if the number of read errors it hit affects when it goes offline (probably does, as in some areas can only read a few MB before it goes offline)

Anyone any thoughts or comments

A hardware imager, with control of power cycle, could probably eventually read all the readable sectors, but the missing data isn't really worth that investment.


Seagate Momentus 7200.4 320GB 2.5" sata
firmware D005SDM1 according to the label

Try to Recover Bad sectors by HDD re-generator 2011. Test, If not possible try refrigerator.
After Putting HDD on it for 4 Hours, then try it. If it is useful try this cycling to recover all data.

NO! NO! NO!

Ignore this duff advice.

Sounds like you have a bad head in the drive, if you hammer it with HDD Regen you WILL kill it beyond recovery.

Should be recoverable for less than £500

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I would go for 12 hours, the cooler the better...
Is it a standard procedure ?

These internet tricks are hard to kill. Everyone knows that putting it in the oven at 550 for three hours does the job better
Of course- you could use a product (or someones service) that can image a hard drive that likely has bad sectors. This is NOT a standard copier for healthy drives. I suggest sending your drive and a new replacement to one of the members here- you will likely meet with good results. Then... there is the oven!

Have you tried reverse clone? Is the situation the same( reading 100mb and stopping)?

If you cycle power ,does it copy another 100mb from where it stopped before?

Clean the contacts of the pcb, change the orientation of the drive , provide cooling fans to the drive...
as you dont want to use the hardware imager option ,this is as much as you can do.
Or babysit and cycle power and image 100MBs ,hoping that the drive wont die before you finish the imaging the process.

Or you can use liquid nitrogen. It is faster.

Seriously, I'm afraid the only way to get your data is if you go to a pro.At this point, it would still be recoverable at a reasonable price.

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