500G sg driver dead .help

[jimy_wu]

I have a 500G seagate 3.5' hdd,and i test it with MHDD,it's 0-50,000,000 sectors are bad.

But the partition table is still there ,even i can see the file and folder name with DiskGenius.

Then i creat a hidden partition include all the bad sects via DiskGenius, after that i plug it in a computer which boot from another hdd.

In windows xp i can see the patition that i want and the data ,when i do the access or copy operation ,the system become dead for a while .

so i stil can no copy data out in windows system .

What i really want is the data in E: ,how can i do .Are there any program can complete hidden the bad sectors patition .

[jimy_wu]

execuse for my poor english .

[poehere]

Clone your drive to another HDD and work from the clone.

[fzabkar]

If I understand you correctly, your drive has several partitions, and the partition table is still accessible. You only want to recover the data in the partition corresponding to drive letter E:.

It seems to me that the best (?) DIY approach is to clone your partition rather than the whole drive. In this case I would locate the starting and ending LBAs in the partition table (in sector 0), and then use dd_rescue or ddrescue to copy these LBAs to the clone drive, but with a sector offset of 63. In other words, the first sector of the E: partition should be copied to sector 63 of the clone. This is because sector 63 is the boot sector of the first partition.

You could then use Testdisk to construct a matching partition table in sector 0 of the clone.

Could we see the partition table and boot sector of your damaged drive 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.

[ppumkin]

Or use Norton ghost supplied on Hirens boot disk.

You can use the Dos version or the 32bit version supplied in the Mini Windows. You can clone by partition and it tries to skip bad sectors. But on many bads it might crash.