Help with HDD Problem Solving

[wnight77]

hello community.

I am new here and i have been Cramming as much info into my head as i can over the last 3 days trying to problem solve this issue. I would be much appreciative if I could get some opinions of the experienced Data Recovery agents.

I am working on a dell optiplex 760 with a WD 1600aasj 160gig.

History to current

The drive booted with some bad sectors
the bad sectors where repaired drive continued to function

the drive booted with more bad sectors
again was repaired and booted this time i had the user backup 90% of there files <phew>

Drive has now failed. But I need to get on there because they didn’t back up their contacts when they were backing up their files. <a little oversight>

The drive spins up upon booting.
The drive does NOT make any clicking noise.]
The WD diagnostic tool ran from UBCD4Win Says Check Sector error check cable. (its not the cable checked with 2 cables AND 2 other HDD's everything works but this one.
Also ran from UBCD4Win the HDD checker and every sector came back RED <IE damaged> but this doesn’t seem to likely be true because nothing was done to the drive.

Most programs cannot even see the drive
Windows cannot see the drive
Dos can see the drive
Bios can see the drive
Some diag and data recovery programs can see the drive

Nothing can access the drive or if they do they say every sector is bad

any ideas of where to look 2 next? and don’t say... <time to go to data recovery shop> cause that aint gonna happen.

[pepe]

Image, then logical recovery.

pepe

[unknown]

TRANSLATOR.

[pepe]

Nothing can access the drive or if they do they say every sector is bad

I overlooked something...

pepe

[drc]

With an attitude like that, I think the only answer is "time to go to data recovery shop"

[HDD Spaz]

time to bin the drive.

[wnight77]

poo =(