Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
July 14th, 2012, 13:03
Hi.
I have a faulty HDD that I was trying to recover any data I can from.
I have a portable 320GB Toshiba drive, and my main faulty HDD WD 160GB.
I booted with Hirens on USB and ran RawCopy.
By mistake, I made the Toshiba the source and the WD the dest. (The Toshiba was empty, just formatted)
After a few seconds I realized my mistake and cancelled the operation.
Now, my WD is appearing as if it does not have any partitions.
Is there a way to recover from this? I'm sure most of the data is still on the drive.
Please help !!!! Very important files on this drive.
Thanks
July 14th, 2012, 13:21
Why is the HDD faulty? Symptoms? Reports?
July 14th, 2012, 13:24
labtech wrote:Why is the HDD faulty? Symptoms? Reports?
I heard some strange noises from it.
Windows started booting but could never finish.
I was able to view the files after booting from USB, but most efforts of copying the data from it crashed.
Then I tried using RawCopy and messed it up even more
July 14th, 2012, 13:27
Mhhh, probably has developed some sort of internal mechanical failure, in addition to sector reading issues.
If the data is important, perhaps the best course of action is professional help.
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