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
September 17th, 2014, 10:35
September 17th, 2014, 10:54
Can you give more details?
1. What are the symptoms?
2. Does the drive ID in your system?
3. How much technical knowledge do you have?
4. What kind of data recovery tools and equipment do you have?
If the data is needed urgently, I recommend that you contact a trustworthy data recovery lab for assistance before further damage is caused by DIY efforts.
September 17th, 2014, 11:01
hi galaxy
If it really is urgent you need to take this to a data recovery professional to attach to hardware that can handle / bypass bad sectors.
If you try this job yourself, without specialist gear, you run the risk of making matters worse.
So...
If taking to a Pro is not an option and the drive is not too damaged, you could try to boot it from a Linux Live CD and see if you can find anything using a file browser.
If this proves unsuitable, you could try ddrescue (linux) to create a full disk image and recover files from that.
This is not a job for someone with no experience of linux or command line interface though.
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