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
February 21st, 2016, 1:41
Hello to all,
I have a hdd as described above, which has failed. Any attempts to access the drive returns a "cyclic redundancy check" error. I purchased a sata to USB cable, but I'm unable to access anything on the drive so far. Any ideas?
February 21st, 2016, 3:26
celsiusrising wrote:Any ideas?
Your description is rather scarce. Do not use USB adapter, connect the drive directly to SATA. What happens / how the drive behaves then? How it failed?
As a generalized guess it's possible to surmise some kind of surface damage / degradation, but not the reasons of it.
Remember that DIY attempts can easily make the situation worse. If the data is important, stop and contact a professional data recovery company.
February 21st, 2016, 5:32
Dmitri wrote:Remember that DIY attempts can easily make the situation worse. If the data is important, stop and contact a professional data recovery company.
+1
your description is too short for someone to understand the problem.
is drive detecting under BIOS or windows ?
is drive spinning at all ?
is drive producing a clicking or abnormal sound ?
what happen before the drive fail ?
February 21st, 2016, 15:04
Thank you Dmitri, for responding. I happened to be in a Fry's electronics store, and asked them to look at it. They looked at it for about a minute and just said no. I am of the belief that I think I will look for a 2nd opinion...
February 21st, 2016, 15:06
It sounds like it is spinning, nothing more soundwise. The only other thing is the cyclic redundancy error that it returns.
February 22nd, 2016, 5:25
celsiusrising wrote:It sounds like it is spinning, nothing more soundwise. The only other thing is the cyclic redundancy error that it returns.
can BIOS or windows detect the hard drive ?
it can be a slow-response problem as mentioned by
spildit
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