Hi there,
I have scanned and found many delays and bad sectors on my WD HDD, and I tried to make a raw copy using "HDD Raw Copy Tool", but after a minute, an error appear...
Here is the log:

5/10/2012 12:05:50 AM Locking device...
5/10/2012 12:05:51 AM Copying...
5/10/2012 12:14:41 AM Read Error occurred at offset 115,277,824; LBA 225,152 (Data error (cyclic redundancy check))
5/10/2012 12:16:03 AM Read Error occurred at offset 116,850,688; LBA 228,224 (Data error (cyclic redundancy check))
5/10/2012 12:17:22 AM Read Error occurred at offset 118,423,552; LBA 231,296 (Data error (cyclic redundancy check))
5/10/2012 12:18:01 AM Read Error occurred at offset 118,947,840; LBA 232,320 (Data error (cyclic redundancy check))
5/10/2012 12:18:26 AM Read Error occurred at offset 119,472,128; LBA 233,344 (Data error (cyclic redundancy check))
5/10/2012 12:20:15 AM Read Error occurred at offset 121,569,280; LBA 237,440 (Data error (cyclic redundancy check))
5/10/2012 12:22:54 AM Read Error occurred at offset 122,617,856; LBA 239,488 (Data error (cyclic redundancy check))
5/10/2012 12:25:34 AM Read Error occurred at offset 123,666,432; LBA 241,536 (Uncorrectable error)
5/10/2012 12:27:11 AM Read Error occurred at offset 124,190,720; LBA 242,560 (The system cannot find the file specified)
5/10/2012 12:27:11 AM Source was unplugged, aborting...
5/10/2012 12:27:11 AM Average speed: 0.1 MB/s
5/10/2012 12:27:11 AM Operation terminated at offset 124,190,720 LBA 242,560

Your data is probably recoverable, but you will need a hardware imager to do the job efficiently. There are some dos based programs that might get the job done (Media Tools Pro), but the cost of the software is close to what you would pay a pro to do it with a HW imager.

Hi,

Your only DIY hope ( & acxcepting the risks) is to try & clone the drive, sector by sector, using a tool such as ddrescue which understands how to work around bad media.

Failing that as previously mentioned a hardware imager something like a DDI or Atola for an example but due to the cost of these it would be cheaper to get a dr pro to recover your data.


Loki

Thanks!!!