ST2000DM001 looking bad... (Canada)

[eoxgcat]

Hi all

I have a Seagate ST2000DM001 used as a secondary drive. All of a sudden it disappeared from Explorer; it now shows in Disk Mgr as unitialized and only 128GB in size.
HDD Raw Copy Tool is unable to make an image of the content -- it just shows a series of read errors at every offset.

It contains data which is not overly critical but I'd really like to get it back though!

I live in Montreal -- what are my best options?


(plus I'm *finally* discovering that this model and its 3TB cousin are crap... and the 3TB is my tertiary drive... damn...)

[lcoughey]

The 2TB are not much better than the 3TB. Your issues could be weak/failing heads, which is quite common. If you are lucky, a few firmware tweaks might be enough to stabilize the drive to be imaged with a hardware imager, without a head change.

My lab, Recovery Force, is in Ontario. If your data is worth our $350 minor rate, it is worth sending our way.

[padmanabha]

If the hard drive clicks and stops, then the drive is expected to have physical damages, or else firmware level damages.

http://www.nowdatarecovery.com