Any chance of recovering the data?

[rafaeljp]

Hi all.

It is a second WD hdd that was not in use for ages, but connected to the motherboard.

First it showed a few bad sectors in starup time but was workigng normally, then i rebooted the PC and it had a lot of unreadable segments. After the reboot Windows would recognize the HD but not read its contents.

Then i started chdisk, but while it was trying to recover the hard rive, the PC turned off out of nothing.
Now windows won't recognize the hdd or will recognize as a CD-Drive, right now it is recognized but as a CD-Drive.

Anything i can do???

There are lots of files there that are really important to me

[Dmitri]

the PC turned off out of nothing

Probably that wasn't too bad, as these two statements

There are lots of files there that are really important to me

Then i started chdisk

hardly correlate to each other.

Depending on the time it was "working", it could have happened that checkdisk destroyed more data than the hard drive failure.

[rafaeljp]

the PC turned off out of nothing

Probably that wasn't too bad, as these two statements

There are lots of files there that are really important to me

Then i started chdisk

hardly correlate to each other.

Depending on the time it was "working", it could have happened that checkdisk destroyed more data than the hard drive failure.

I rebooted the PC again and the hard drive was recognized during startup(chdisk tried to repair it but i canceled the attempt following your advice), now Windows still display the CD-Drive icon but when i click over it, it says "E:\ is not readable. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable."

SeaTools is also now recognizing the hard drive but i'm afraid of making any test or anything, i don't know what to do

[rafaeljp]

Update: I'm managing to recover files with Recuva but it is very slow and the drive makes a weird noise. Should i continue?

[jermy]

my advice would be to stop what you doing and send it to a pro
it might be still not an expensive recovery
my 2 ¢