I have a hard drive that i am trying to recover data from. it says that it needs to be formatted but it wont let me format it because it give a Redundancy Check Error. Tried Get Data Back, it runs but gives a whole slue of errors and shows nothing in the tree at the end. Cant run ChkDsk gives that it cannot access the drive. Do you guys have any suggestions?

Drive is failing.

It's not gonna get any better the more you tinker with it.

If data is not that important and not worth pro recovery, then at least clone the drive first with non-windows software (e.g. Dd_rescue or Media Tools Pro) and the run GDB on the clone.

But be aware that as the drive is failing, this could cause catastrophic failure at any time, rendering recovery impossible even for a pro.

Any decent pro would have tools and procedures to minimise this risk and maximise chances of recovery.

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