Hey,

I had someone bring me their hard drive asking if I could get their data back.

Plugging it in through a USB bridge just causes an hour glass when telling disk management to scan for changes.

I ran the Seagate tool (bootable ISO) on it, and it didn't see anything, I set the drive to slave and ran it again and low and behold, there was the drive. I ran a basic test on it and it said it failed, bad sectors, suggested I run the advanced test on it.

I ran the advanced test, it failed, bad sectors.

I tried running easus disk copy to see if I could do a direct copy to another drive, but it just sat there at scanning disks

I tried running MHDD, but it doesn't see it, and doesn't detect drives in Slave.

Does anyone have any suggestions or Ideas on what I can try here? Is there hope for this drive, since it is getting detected by the seatools?

Thanks.

First off doing what you are doing no there is no hope for this drive. Why in the world would you run erase on a drive your client has asked for his data back on. That is only the possibility of destroying his data and chances to get it back.

When you get in a drive for repair first off see what your problem is with proper tools and determine what is wrong with it.

If you have the right tool you can clone this drive even with bad sectors on it and get back his data. If it has SA problem then you repair it first then clone it. You never start to attack a drive with all these programs and then do an erase on it.

You need to suggest to this person to take this drive to someone who knows what he is doing before it is way too late and all his data is gone forever.

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Iorana Haraharaini

I never said erase... I think you misread easeus..

Well I spent a lot of time messing about. The only time I can get the drive detected is in the Seatools software from Seagate. It sees the drive, but says it's not responding to any of the commands and to check cables, it also says bad sectors.

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may be this is the time to take it to pro, otherwise u need special tools/software to get data out of that drive, the more you will work on drive the worse it goes..

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RAID/Server Recovery

The guy said the data wasn't worth spending hundreds of dollars/thousands of dollars, the first thing I suggested was taking it to a pro if he absolutely needed the data, otherwise that I would see what I can do.

You cannot do anything unless you have the tools required for this kind of diagnose / repair and of course know what to do.