Hi all

I have a Seagate ST2000DM001 used as a secondary drive. All of a sudden it disappeared from Explorer; it now shows in Disk Mgr as unitialized and only 128GB in size.
HDD Raw Copy Tool is unable to make an image of the content -- it just shows a series of read errors at every offset.

It contains data which is not overly critical but I'd really like to get it back though!

I live in Montreal -- what are my best options?


(plus I'm *finally* discovering that this model and its 3TB cousin are crap... and the 3TB is my tertiary drive... damn...)

The 2TB are not much better than the 3TB. Your issues could be weak/failing heads, which is quite common. If you are lucky, a few firmware tweaks might be enough to stabilize the drive to be imaged with a hardware imager, without a head change.

My lab, Recovery Force, is in Ontario. If your data is worth our $350 minor rate, it is worth sending our way.

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Recovery Force Data Recovery

If the hard drive clicks and stops, then the drive is expected to have physical damages, or else firmware level damages.

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