HI! i have a Hitchi 2.5" HDD.
The computer(laptop ) did not boot anymore. so i removed the HDD SATA and hooked it up by USB on my windows system.
It found the HDD but it did not assign a drive name as the file system is RAW/unknown..
but iam able to see the capacity in the Admin toolz , drive manager ,
When i run a data recovery tool it does read the drive but it takes literally : 2 days for 12224075 Sectors to read. so it will take me about 50 days to read all the data.
When i called ontrack they told me it would be firmware and they can fix it.
The drive is not clicking.I used my hirens cd and run HDD regenerator.
It found 5142 bad sectors ( 2 days ) and recovered all 5142 bad sectors , but it will take 50 days to finnish.
Is that a bad head ? or does it need actuator readjustment ? I would like to tell you the HDD model number but i dont wana quit the program unless you tell me to.
Its a hitachi SATA 150 GB in a toshiba satellite.
So the drive is able to read the data but VERYYYYYYYYYYYY slow.
Can anybody help me please and give me some advice.
I would like to get my pictures of the drive if i can.
Please help me
What else can i provide to make it easier ? im gonna try to provide a WAV file to let you hear what it does when it reads Data , it sound like it has to retry at a different RPM then moved the actuator and then it gets it.
Thank you ! Dankeschoen !
motec

hi

If i really want to help you, i should say, stop it immediately, and seek for professional help.
But i really want to help you, so i say it.

Your drive have some surface damage and at least one weak/damaged head.
Your drive's hours are in counted allready.
If your data is really important, stop the process, and seek for help.
If your data is not too important, then try to read only the really needed sector to find your stuff and try to read out only these.
you have a really really minimal chance (about 10%) to get back alone, but much more ( about 90%) to kill your drive and triple the recovery price or render to unrecoverable in only some seconds....

This is the actual state.

Janos

Im a reeeeeeeally good computer technician.
Hmm ,lol...
Ok so you think i should make a hirens image for example with norton ghost and check the box for ignore errors and make a image ? Off cource the image is gonna tage about 50 days to i assume ? Please let me know what you think , and thank you so much for the fast reply.
What do you guys thing about : The head is weak , due to the head being weak it thinks that a sector is bad because it cannot read it on time ? So the sectors are good and i should attempt a actuator replacement with another (same ) HDD ? or is it easier if i just rotate the platters ? And sorry one more thing> ? The Data woudl be nice to have back but iam willing to guinea pig Iam a forensic specialist. lol lots of tools but all software and not hardware related. please give me more advice. Iam not able to narrow down the sectors because i dont know where the data sectors begin and end.
Thank you !

I shall assume that this is a Hitachi 160 GB J9SA00 series drive.

It might have firmware problems. More likely it has a weak head and plenty of unreadable sectors.

If you open the drive and play with it, you will surely kill it. Give it to a pro if you need the data. Experiment & play all you like if you don't.

In any event, it is likely that you have a limited amount of run time on this drive before it dies all by itself, so judge your actions accordingly.

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