I'm one of those people who always knew I should be backing up my data, but never got myself to do it! However I have now finally started to do so and am going through each of my hard drives, one by one. Unfortunately it seems that I didn't get to one of them fast enough and it appears to have failed.

The good thing is that, using Recuva, I can see many of my files, despite a file directory that seems to have become somewhat corrupted. The bad part is that when I try recovering the files, I am faced with a cyclic redundancy check. The drive is a RAW one and thus I can't use the CHKDSK /R or /F solution.

I've also tried switching to a 3rd party enclosure, but that hasn't solved the problem.

Any ideas on how I can recover my data?

The drive is an Imation Apollo one. The data is critical (family photos etc), and I'd rather try myself before going to a professional who would be quite expensive.

I'll have a look using MHDD. Thanks

What do you consider expensive...with current CAN/US exchange rate, it likely is less than $300 for this recovery. If you "try" everything you can first and then go to a pro, you could cause enough damage it will be expensive...or, at the very least, a lower percentage of files recovered.

If you are going to do anything at all, you should be getting a full sector-by-sector clone to a blank healthy drive first.

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Those two statements don't match, IMHO.

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