Seagate ST9500325AS - can't rescue data..

[danielsak]

Hello,
I have big problem with Seagate ST9500325AS hard drive. Yesterday I was not be able to boot up Windows and then I tried to rescue data.

The drive is normally detected by BIOS, Linux distros (like SystemRescueCd, Parted Magic) and MHDD.

MHDD can show ID (F2) and EID (Shift+F2)

Code:

ST9500325AS   LBA: 976,711,055   BIOS: 81H
SN: 5VEJEK6Z   FW: 0006SDM2      CACHE: 8192 KB
Size = 476938 MB

smartctl on Linux and MHDD can read SMART attributes (F8) - see below

Code:

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   110   089   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       92512969
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   098   098   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   092   092   020    Old_age   Always       -       8625
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   001   001   036    Pre-fail  Always   FAILING_NOW 2041
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   086   060   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       4762335220
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   087   087   000    Old_age   Always       -       12083
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   092   092   020    Old_age   Always       -       8655
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0032   100   100   099    Old_age   Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       709
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       8590065680
189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   074   058   045    Old_age   Always       -       26 (Min/Max 26/26)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       731
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       76
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   059   059   000    Old_age   Always       -       82122
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   026   042   000    Old_age   Always       -       26 (0 11 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   052   044   000    Old_age   Always       -       92512969
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       6
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       6
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
254 Free_Fall_Sensor        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

MHDD can read LBA from 0 to ~6280000 without delays and then I get x UNC (badsector). After this I can see only ! ABRT. Drive is not accessible anymore. To get access again the drive has to be power cycled.

After this I started scan from LBA 6300000 and again I get x UNC (badsector) before ~32100000. Next scan I started at 32100000 and it the same thing as before.

When I tried to make 1:1 copy by ddrescue to another good HDD.


Can anyone help with this?

English isn’t my native language, so please excuse any mistakes.

[dick]

Hi. The drive is unstable of course.
Have you tried doing a reverse clone? So that would be starting at the last sector and finishing at sector zero.

[michael chiklis]

You need hardware cloning tool to rescue data (PC3000 DE, MRT DE, Deepspar, etc).
If you can not afford these expensive tools, then you should contact someone who has them and that can clone the drive for you.
Professional DR have those tools.

Those HW tools can skip bad sectors and continue cloning surface by using many techniques (fast jumping, low reading timings, inverse cloning, software and hardware reset, head recalibration, automatic repower drive on reading error, etc).
Those tools are also able to do sectors and head map, so you'll know what area was jumped, this way you can try to clone those skipped areaa in a second pass.
You also can find which data got damaged and which got copied correctly.

[maximus]

You need hardware cloning tool to rescue data (PC3000 DE, MRT DE, Deepspar, etc).
If you can not afford these expensive tools, then you should contact someone who has them and that can clone the drive for you.
Professional DR have those tools.

Those HW tools can skip bad sectors and continue cloning surface by using many techniques (fast jumping, low reading timings, inverse cloning, software and hardware reset, head recalibration, automatic repower drive on reading error, etc).
Those tools are also able to do sectors and head map, so you'll know what area was jumped, this way you can try to clone those skipped areaa in a second pass.
You also can find which data got damaged and which got copied correctly.

+1
If you value your data, seek a data recovery professional now, and quit messing with the drive. The more attempts you make, the more damage can be done.

If, however, the data is not valuable to you, and you are not willing pay for recovery and willing to accept total data loss, there is another program you can try instead of ddrescue. The drive appears to be going into a fault state when it reads certain parts, and once in fault it will not read again until power cycled. Ddrescue has no way to detect this condition, all it knows it there was an IO error that it considers a bad read. But HDDSuperClone can detect this, and it will stop with a message at which time you would need to power cycle the drive and start the program again. But this is only if you don't value your data, and are not willing to pay to get it back. You would be taking a big chance. The drive may be damaged in a way that you have no chance of a good recovery on your own, and the potential to destroy any chances of a professional recovery.

[fzabkar]

Try disabling various features via the drive's serial terminal interface:

http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=1842&start=60

[lifeguarddubai]

hi,
Best seek Professional Help in this situation it might cost basic fee you can able to get your Data back...
Get your Data Recovered then you can experiment with Drive,