3TB Seagate HDD has a lost partition.

[Karel]

Dear all,

I bought myself a nice, large 3TB hard drive so to organize all my data. Just before Windows XP stopped, I wanted to put photos with photos, movies with movies , mail with mail in seperated directories. My good intentions...

Monday the 17th march I started my PC , chkdsk wanted to check this hard drive with my old xp partition on it . It did not see much trouble , and then I wanted to check my xp data . It succeeded once, quickly after that the drive bacame dark blue in windows 7. Immediately I started ZAR , Zero Assumption Recovery , a data rescue program . It found some data, later everything was bad blocks(HDD Rescue (another rescue program)says there are no bad blocks, but a lot of delays ) . Today, the ZAR program found nothing on this disc . Empty and unformatted !
Testdisk (famous data recovery software) didn't find a MBR also.
Strangely enough the other two partitions on this hard disk still seem OK! I am very careful with this drive , so I have a different boot disk now , on this malfunctioning drive was C : windows 7 and I: windows XP .
Do I have other rescue options?
I have put also the disk plus (a new data) cord on another SATA connector , result was the opening screen of xp , then black screen and then the startup screen of my motherboard (the ASRock robot)... some kind of reset.
I can also swap the circuitboard of another (same) disk ( but the other partitions are better, I ask myself if it is an inprovement if the other 2 partitions seem OK).
I have never seen such a rapid and complete loss of a hard drive. The drive has only 600 hours of operation.

My questions are:

-Should I ask for a HDD replacement (it's rather new)?
-Is the ST3000DM001-(1CH166) a bad drive by nature?
-Is there other good data recovery software, or is ZAR pretty good allready?
-Is my ASRock P43R1600Twins board suspicious, because I had some HDD crashes in the past?

A am not a native English speaker, if I said something wrong, or I am not clear enough please say so!

PS: I just discovered that I made another copy of the C partition so I am a happpy man!

[fzabkar]

Check the SMART report with a tool such as CrystalDiskInfo. Look for reallocated, pending, or uncorrectable sectors.

[Karel]

Happily enough I found a copy of my lost partition.

But...Windows 7 tells me that I don't have access rights to the files of my XP partition (e.g. my documents).

On windows 7 I have administrator rights.

How can I pass this barrier?

[fzabkar]

Take Ownership of a File or Folder:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 53659.aspx

Tip: Learn How to Take or Assign Ownership of Files and Folders:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/maga ... 04240.aspx

[Karel]

Conduit is blocking the process of becoming the owner of the files. MBAM cannot find anything. Any clues?

[jerovsek]

Hello,

if there is any option, then create image on another disk and play with it.
Otherwise you can try with UbuntuLive or hirens to access.
You can aslo create Image of this drive on another drive/partition and use image explorer Drive SnapShot, Norton Ghost(with both you can create image in file and view this images(you are also able to extract files from this images