HITACHI HTS541080G9AT00 / 80GB Please Help

[alan.hudges]

Dear Gurus,

Reason is still unknown why my laptop finally showed "operation system not found" message
also after having some blue and black screens during the week.

What I did is:

Removed the HD from the laptop. Plugged to the Smart USB interface and the interface to the desktop PC.

1.Desktop PC assigned a G: drive to the disc and showed no data when its explored.

2.By right click the Disk showed that it is full and RAW as a file system.

3.I have tried: Power Data Recovery, it has found the device but no data
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery showed , not valid logical drive or critical data structure are badly corrupted for this drive.. Getdataback could not find anything..

So what can I do? Shall I do format and do format recovery? I am not sure.

Could you Please help me about this? This cannot be that bad. I mean everything is just gone!!

[itconcept]

Good Day
if u r Data is Most Important then give drive to Data Recovery Company Near to u r place if not that much important try with R-Studio software this Model Drive having Bad Sectors Problem check any Bad Sectors recovery softwares.

[dick]

Well a quick check with R-studio might be helpful but really some basic diagnostic checks need to be made. You could use MHDD though as you have a usb interface at your disposal you could instead use Victoria for windows.

Another thing, rather than run every known recovery utility on your drive it would be a good idea to make a sector level image of the problem drive. Either to a 2nd spare drive or as an image file. That way you can work on the data without causing any damage. Do the diagnostics 1st!

[alan.hudges]

Please excuse my ignorance mr itconcepts, mr dick,
But what is MHDD?

And may I do this basic diagnostic checks with R-Studio?

Thank you very much.

[alan.hudges]

My screen shot from the r-studio program is just like on the screenshot.(attached)
The one I want to recover is HTS54....
There is no recover delete or scan option is available when I right click.


Unfortunately I am not a good tuneman. But I am sure you can help me.please.

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[itconcept]

Hi
r u following wrong procedure i think select u r Drive Right click select Scan Try Simple scan it is faster procedure if u can't find Proper Data Try again with Detailed scan u will get Results.

[alan.hudges]

hello

I cant even click the scan option it is disabled. as you see on the screenshot.

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[Alexii]

dont click on the assigned letter. Right click on the drive itself. So right click on HTS541080... etc, choose scan option.

[drc]

I like how the main drive is a Quantum Fireball

[HDD Spaz]

the disk is showing as no capacity. either your usb connector is not working or the disk has a serious failure. Is the data important? if so stop what your doing now and get yourself a quote for data recovery. try pcimage on this forum.

[fzabkar]

Could we see the partition table and boot sector with Microsoft's Sector Inspector?

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/SecInspect.zip

Extract the above archive to the one folder and execute the SIrun.bat file. The procedure will generate a report file named SIout.txt which you can then upload to a file sharing service so that we can examine it.

[thatdellguy]

I like how the main drive is a Quantum Fireball

Thats like driving a Toyota over here...

[networkpc3000]

Could we see the partition table and boot sector with Microsoft's Sector Inspector?

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/SecInspect.zip

Extract the above archive to the one folder and execute the SIrun.bat file. The procedure will generate a report file named SIout.txt which you can then upload to a file sharing service so that we can examine it.

hi,
does it will work for this case? any hopeful? or Toyota too?

[fzabkar]

Could we see the partition table and boot sector with Microsoft's Sector Inspector?

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/SecInspect.zip

Extract the above archive to the one folder and execute the SIrun.bat file. The procedure will generate a report file named SIout.txt which you can then upload to a file sharing service so that we can examine it.

hi,
does it will work for this case? any hopeful? or Toyota too?

The first thing to do when you suspect file system corruption is to survey the damage. The drive is showing up with a drive letter. This means that the OS is seeing the partition table, but perhaps it is corrupt, or perhaps the boot sector has been damaged.

[hddguy]

I think you should not be accessing the HDD through USB. This will only add to your problems if the HDD is not entirely healthy or stable.

[scratchy]

I like how the main drive is a Quantum Fireball

I had heard there was still one out there, but I thought it was a rumour ..

[alan.hudges]

I dont know If ıt ıs useful for you but I did a secinspect file.
I am uploading it as you have said, ıt might be useful to diagnose..

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Output of the Sec inspect..

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[alan.hudges]

dont click on the assigned letter. Right click on the drive itself. So right click on HTS541080... etc, choose scan option.

the scan option also not available on the "HTS541080..."
so in both case disabled.

[scratchy]

What does it show under WMI disk manager (Right click My Computer, select manage, then select disk drives)

[alan.hudges]

The screenshot from WMI Services is like this.
Do you mean by right click or?

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