Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
April 10th, 2012, 20:49
My Western Digital MyBook II 4TB was damaged from a fall. There was no visible physical damage, but it was in RAID 0, so I tried to take a backup of it. The problem is, everything that DID come out was recovered as .SWF files.
Is there any way of fixing this?
April 10th, 2012, 20:53
Not without pro help.
April 10th, 2012, 20:54
a little more elaboration would be appreciated
April 11th, 2012, 0:16
Fall = bad head(s) & possible (likely) media damage.
Note: The more you operate the drive, the more likely you are to have cascading (i.e. total) failure.
Mechanical repairs on WD drives are not DIY operations. You would need pro gear and expertise to attempt it.
Each drive would have to be imaged after repair and then the RAID parameters would have to be determined, and then the RAID could be stitched back together. That you might be able to do by yourself, with two good drive images.
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