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 29th, 2018, 18:45
I have a 2TB WD Mirror edition. I used the full 2TB with no backup. Years ago it just stopped powering on. The blue case light would come on, stay solid for about ten second before flashing for a second or two and returning to a solid light permanently. Pressing and/or holding the reset button has no effect on anything.
When I remove the drives from the enclosure and connect them via a hard drive docking station, my PC prompts me to initialize one and format the other. That's not going to happen, because I want some of the data.
When I connected the two drives to my PC and ran RecoverMyFiles I set it up as a RAID0 (not sure if that's correct) I could see a lot of the files. But the ones I recovered as a test, were all garbled. For example, a picture would be a pixelated, distorted mess.
Is there any way to fix this without finding a new controller or sending the drives off to a data recovery company?
July 30th, 2018, 16:14
DMDE should be able to assemble your RAID as a virtual drive. Can you show us the Partitions window in DMDE?
https://dmde.com/Can you upload detailed photos of both sides of the USB-SATA bridge board in the enclosure? Sometimes there is an easy, no-cost DIY solution.
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