so i have an ST3250318AS with CC38 firmware
the other day it crashed on me and after reboot it went to a disk scan..after a long time and a lot of bad sectors it quit. So now i have another drive with an OS running my computer and i am trying to get some data off the crashed drive
If i unplug the crashed drive and plug it back in..the bios will detect it but it then goes to a constant red led and doesn't show up in the OS. If i restart the computer from this point the drive will not be detected in the BIOS. If I unplug the drive for a short time and try again it will be detected.
I thought i would try something else so I started the OS with the defective drive unplugged and hot plugged the drive. I then went to hardware manager and detected new hardware. Both partitions of the defective drive then show up and the entire directory of both partitions is available and correct. If I try to open anything on the affected drive it goes to a solid red led and does not work.
I tried running chkdsk from the command prompt and it said something to this effect
The type of the filesystem is RAW.
<something about the disk not being locked>
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.
I looked in disk management and both partitions on the affected drive show up as NTFS and healthy
Anybody have any thoughts about what the problem could be and what i could look at or try to get the drive working again.

Thanks for looking,

Garrick

Stop before you loose all. You should never run check disk on any drive in this condition. You might get lucky but now I do not think so to clone this with ddrescue. But now it looks like this HDD has more issues and a lot of bad sectors on it. You need a professional cloning tool in order to do this one. I would try before you kill it completely to seek some help from a DR person in your area. You are in Texas this one should not be so hard I am sure there is some good companies there if you stop playing around with this now to help you out on it. But for DIY I think you are out of luck. You can try DDRescue on this one and see if you can clone it to another HDD. If you can not clone it to another HDD then a professional cloning tool is needed to do this one for you. There could also be issues with more on this drive that is causing some of these problems. But you say it is bad sectors and until a person can examine the drive have to take your word on this one. So clone it and quit playing around with it before you kill it completely.

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Iorana Haraharaini

Thanks for your input Iorana. And just to clarify, I have no idea what is wrong with it. I only mentioned the bad sectors because when i attached the affected drive as a secondary drive the OS (win 7) ran scandisk on it and found hundreds of bad sectors.

Well,
Bad Clusters Or Cross Linked Files check again

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Amarbir S Dhillon , Chandigarh Data Recovery Labs [India]
Logical,Semi Physical And Physical Data Recovery
Website-> http://www.chandigarhdatarecovery.com

@ itsbeen

you can try what i`ve described here: (i`m also searching for a solution to have the disk stay online for longer time)
toshiba-mk3256gsy-103ntbgmt-expert-help-needed-t22552.html

but be aware!