northwind wrote:
Hi
First of all, why did you format and re-install windows to a drive that has useful data inside? Or did you install windows to some other drive?
I didn't format anything. I just re-installed Windows.
northwind wrote:
Secondly, as you can see your drive is dying. Fast. Hammering it with all shorts of tests does NOT help it. It is just dying faster because you're simply pushing it off the cliff.
My specialties in the IT field is networking and programming. When it comes to data storage, I'm dumb as a box of rocks. Data recovery is not something I've ever dabbled in. I've learned more about how storage technologies like Hard Drives work in the last week than I ever learned in the last 20 years in this field. I really don't know anything about what to do when things like this happen. You see, I've never seen a hard disk fail like this before. I'm used to seeing very specific signs, usually the BIOS or OS having trouble identifying the drive or clicking noises which normally gives me enough time to save my stuff before it's totally dead. Also, this is the first time in a very long time that HD failure has caught me without backups of my large data sets. I'm normally very OCD about backing up stuff but the experience with the high reliability with Barracuda Drives over the last decade has seen me slacking off in my back up practices. As I've said, I wasn't expecting this drive to fail for at least another 5 years.
northwind wrote:
If the question "can I move on with my life without my data" answers with NO, unplug your drive and send it to a data recovery professional.
I'll have to send the drive away(out of the country) for data recovery and I hear it's very expensive. That's out of the question.
I've since decided to make do with what I have. The drive has settled into a transfer rate of around 16 KB/s so I have downloaded a copying program that can run in the background and is capable of resuming operations after being interrupted. I'll just let it run constantly to recover my data. At that transfer rate, it could take months to recover all the stuff I want to save but it's better than having no choice at all. I've already recovered some very important folders this way.
northwind wrote:
Search this forum for Seagate Terminal connection, buy a TTL cable for $5, connect it to your drive and show us terminal output here.
This actually sounds quite interesting. I can't do that now because those components may have to be imported and given the state of the world right now, imports are kind of iffy. Lots of folks where I'm from having a lot of delays with imports right now. I'd definitely like to look into this though. Both my Barracuda drives aren't flat dead yet so I will keep them for some time so I can revisit this terminal thing later on.
pepe wrote:
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A Grenada drive lasting 5 years. Wow!
and an ST1000528AS for 15
they were in production around 2010-2012... so it wasn't 'that' long time ago.
You're probably right. That Barracuda drive lived through so much in my life it felt like forever lol. I mean that drive out lasted at least 2 PCs and I don't tend to upgrade PCs very often. Hell, I have good friends in my life that haven't been with me as long as that drive. That drive is to this day the most reliable hard drive I have ever had by far. I always swear by these drives and I always recommend them to people. The SSD I'm using now is just temporary, I do plan on obtaining another Barracuda drive as soon as I can.