Seagate with a lot of CRC error

[flabvox]

Hi everyone,

this is my first message, and i want to thank you all in advance for this very interesting and helpful forum.

BTW I've a segate st3400833a recognized in bios and on device manager.

I tried with gdb, r-studio, stellar but the drive hangs and then was no more recognized.

Then I used winhex, it sees the drive phisically, gives error when try open the logical partition.

I start scanning the drive and once it gets 11% of scanning, I get a lot of cyclic redundancy error and then I lost again the drive. Just recovered 1GB of data.

And everytime does the same thing.

Any suggestions?

Thank you

[pcimage]

First of all, don't let windows play with it anymore.

Get a OS-Independant imager, and make an image to a good drive, then work from that.

CopyR, Media Tools, something like that.

[flabvox]

Hi pcimage,

are you talking about RecoverSoft Media Tools Professional?

and what about CopyR? I cannot find it.

thank you

[pninja]

Hi,

Try reverse cloning of the media tools. Push CRL-S and set error retries to
zero before starting the clone process.

Goodluck

[pcimage]

Yep, Media Tools Pro.

Like pninja says, reverse mode often works better.

[darkforce1]

Copyr demo works till with 128 gb hard disk only.

DF

[pcimage]

flabvox,

where are you based?

If UK or near, then I can help you out

[flabvox]

Hi pcimage,

I'm based in Italy...

BTW right now I've only the demo version of Recoversoft....I'm trying to get the full version....you know what I mean!

[Starling]

what you mean?

[Steve]

I think he means he doesn't want to have to pay for the software

IMHO

[flabvox]

I surrendered!
I paid!

Ok now the situation is that the cycle clone or the reverse stops when find a read error sector.
I'm trying to set the start position on different LBA to have the more good sectors I can.

I'm figuring out what if I use HDD regenerator, because I don't think is a heads problem since I could recover some good files from the very first part of the disk.

Btw thanx all you guys for your answers and suggestions.

[pcimage]

Ctrl-S to change setup.

Change retry from 32 to 0 or 1.

[flabvox]

Hi pcimage,

I already set retry to 0.

The problem is that when there's a read sector error, the source drive disappears and since destination drive is on the same cable, maybe there's some conflict because after that I get even a write error and the clone ends.

Putting the destination on another cable is unuseful because always the source will disappear than there would be nothing to clone.

I tried changin' also the timeouts for read sector....I will win......perhaps!

[pcimage]

Oops.

Hmm, sounds like your drive may have some pretty serious issues.

The only way forward I can think of with this, is some sort of hardware assisted imaging solution. Which has the power to soft/hard reset and pulse the power supply to the drive,when a hard error is encountered.

The only two I can think of off-hand in Data Extractor in PC3000 and Deepspar Disk Imager. There is another box that will do it, but can't think of it's name off-hand. These are all $1,000's of dollar products

I have the former two, if you want to send the drive to me I'll take a look at a very special price

Cheers

Sean

[vsc]

Hi everyone,

this is my first message, and i want to thank you all in advance for this very interesting and helpful forum.

BTW I've a segate st3400833a recognized in bios and on device manager.

I tried with gdb, r-studio, stellar but the drive hangs and then was no more recognized.

Then I used winhex, it sees the drive phisically, gives error when try open the logical partition.

I start scanning the drive and once it gets 11% of scanning, I get a lot of cyclic redundancy error and then I lost again the drive. Just recovered 1GB of data.

And everytime does the same thing.

Any suggestions?

Thank you

Hi flabvox!

PM me, maybe I can help you..

[cgallery]

Putting the destination on another cable is unuseful because always the source will disappear than there would be nothing to clone.

I tried changin' also the timeouts for read sector....I will win......perhaps!

Still, you should have the source and destination on separate controllers.

[flabvox]

Hi all,

I'm still strugglin' with this seagate, btw I wanna thank you for letting me know this great mediatool pro that helped me in other bad situations!

Cheers!