Some questions on WD My Passport recovery / imaging

[CDWD]

Evening guys.

I'm just looking to check some things you to see if I'm on the right path here or if something's completely off.

I'm currently attempting to recover an external WD My Passport 1TB Harddrive using "Get Data Back Pro" by "Runtime".

The drive is completely inaccessible via Windows and when running the software on a windows OS it really struggles to initiate the scan. I've just got the runtime CDBoot USB going, running on Linux and it easily gets through the scan and shows all my data, so much faster and easier than my Windows OS.

I've been on this now for nearly a week and I feel like I'm not making much progress at all.

I'm currently imaging the bad drive which has 1,953,458,176 sectors. It got through the first 100,000 sectors extremely quick but now it's literally processing the sectors now at roughly around 1,000 sectors every 8giving seconds is me an estimated time of "2104" Hours and it seems to be increasing.

I have attempted another USB cable from another external drive and there seems like there's no change in transfer/processing speed at all during either imaging the drive or transferring a file from the drive to the local C drive.

Is there anything I can do at all to speed this process up, will it somehow kick itself into a much faster speed after passing some time, or am I destined to let it run for whole 89 days as suggested?

I feel like this is driving me mad and consuming so much of my time at the moment.

I will appreciate any feedback.

Many thanks.

[pepe]

one (or more) of the surfaces is damaged or one or more head is weak.
H0 is ok and its surface as well, at least at the beginning, that's why you get the first 100k sectors fast.
You have to decide wether you inted to engage in an endless struggle with it, potentially loosing some of the data forever or ask pro help.

https://forum.hddguru.com/memberlist.ph ... ile&u=6805
https://forum.hddguru.com/memberlist.ph ... ile&u=5866
for example.

pepe

[Lardman]

I'm currently imaging the bad drive which has 1,953,458,176 sectors. It got through the first 100,000 sectors extremely quick but now it's literally processing the sectors now at roughly around 1,000 sectors every 8giving seconds is me an estimated time of "2104" Hours and it seems to be increasing.

< Insert usual warning about important data, DIY damage and making this worse >

What are you using to image the drive ?
What's the drive speed like cloning in reverse ?
Have you tried skipping 25% of the sectors and starting the clone there?
Is it reading well but slowly or are there bad sectors?

[jono-ats]

If you value your data, send it to a reputable data recovery firm.

Chances are your drive needs a head swap and some firmware work. NOT DIY. Unless you don't care about the data.

Jono